[master] 169e162 Enforce that VCL names must be C-language identifiers ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CABoVN9AGba5TryZnL7MtEaQhE_fxkjrfj2qK1sRY57Zg-8-FaQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Dridi Boukelmoune writes:

>> The alternative would be to encode a freer form into C-idents, but that
>> turns really ugly really fast...
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>I can fix packaging scripts once we reach consensus, but this probably
>deserve a proper entry in upgrading.rst since this change may break
>things downstream (like the varnish agent for instance).

If '-' is in widespread use, we should not break it.

I asked on IRC earlier, but nobody reacted...

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