Re: File local variable name containing ':'

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Fair enough. What about requiring that the separating colon is followed
> by whitespace. Is the backwards incompatibility cost too high there?

We could do that.  E.g. if there's only 1 colon, we know what to do, and
if there's more than 1 we can force the separating one to be followed by
something like [[ "(].

> Or could colons in the variable name be escaped with a backslash?

That would be a good simple and reliable option, indeed, since a\:b
already represents the same symbol as a:b in Elisp.


        Stefan