[Kaffe] ease of use patch.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 24, 1999, Dan McGuirk <mcguirk at indirect.com> wrote:

> On 24 Feb 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> [re: the '$' character in an identifier]
>> It is not allowed in the Java Programming Language, but it is allowed
>> in method names in the bytecode.

> It seems that it is allowed, but you're discouraged from using it because
> you're potentially going to conflict with the inner class stuff.  From JLS
> 3.8:

> 	The Java letters include uppercase and lowercase ASCII Latin letters A-Z
> 	(\u0041-\u005a), and a-z (\u0061-\u007a), and, for historical reasons, the
> 	ASCII underscore (_, or \u005f) and dollar sign ($, or \u0024). The $
> 	character should be used only in mechanically generated Java code or,
> 	rarely, to access preexisting names on legacy systems.

> If you're allowed to use it "rarely", then you're allowed to use it...

I see.  Well, looks like I was misled :-(

Thanks for correcting me

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