Re: Double hyphens in variable names.

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> What if you do:
>
> @defvar imenu@verb{ -- }index-alist
>
> The spaces can be replaced by any other delimiter.
>
> Does this lead to satisfactory results?

No.  For the info file, it does produce:

 - Variable: imenu--index-alist

but for the info file's index it produces:

* imenu:                                 Imenu.

Additionally, it chokes TeX:

  ! Undefined control sequence.
  \tabeightspaces ->\catcode `\^^I=\active \def ^^I
                                                   {\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ }
  \setupverb ...catcode `\`=\active \tabeightspaces 
                                                    \obeylines \uncatcodespeci...

  \verb ->\begingroup \setupverb 
                                 \doverb 
  <argument> imenu\verb 
                        { -- }index-alist
  \code #1->#1

  \dosubind ...e \toks 0}\xdef \indexsorttmp {\temp 
                                                    }}\edef \temp {\write \csn...
  ...
  l.1850 @defvar imenu@verb{ -- }index-alist

Still, even if it had worked, wouldn't it be best that the @defvr
macro treats multiple hyphens like @code does?

  Lute.