Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be named in a language. Is there such a list for D?

On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be named in a language. Is there such a list for D?

Do you mean the style guide? https://dlang.org/dstyle.html
Or https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html ?

On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 04:08:13 UTC, Marco de Wild wrote:
> On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>> Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be named in a language. Is there such a list for D?
>
> Do you mean the style guide? https://dlang.org/dstyle.html
> Or https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html ?

Neither.

On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 13:15:21 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 04:08:13 UTC, Marco de Wild wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>>> Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be named in a language. Is there such a list for D?
>>
>> Do you mean the style guide? https://dlang.org/dstyle.html
>> Or https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html ?
>
> Neither.

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.
If you're trying to replicate the section from Dennis Ritchie's C
manual, you might want to look at 'VarDeclarations' in the grammar[1],
but I'm not sure such a section would be particularly useful.

[1] https://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html#VarDeclarations

On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be named in a language. Is there such a list for D?

Everything that contains the "Identifier" rule falls into the "can be named" category.

On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 15:35:18 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.

I guess I don't know how better to put it: I wanted to know what are the things that can be named in a D program.

> If you're trying to replicate the section from Dennis Ritchie's C
> manual, you might want to look at 'VarDeclarations' in the grammar[1],
> but I'm not sure such a section would be particularly useful.
>
> [1] https://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html#VarDeclarations

Firstly it is not about replicating something from the C manual. A fundamental aspect of any programming language is what things you can give a name to, and then the scope, and lifetime of named objects.

A module has a name, so looking at var declarations alone in not sufficient.

But I get it: there is no such list.

On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 17:15:42 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 15:35:18 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
> A module has a name, so looking at var declarations alone in not sufficient.

I told you. All rules containing the Identifier sub rule.
I just add 'and that is not an Expression or a Statement' (i.e only DeclDefs)