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| -rw-r--r-- | raul/Symbol.hpp | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/raul/Symbol.hpp b/raul/Symbol.hpp index 6658cf3..8aa82c1 100644 --- a/raul/Symbol.hpp +++ b/raul/Symbol.hpp @@ -27,10 +27,15 @@ namespace Raul { -/** A restricted string (C identifier, which is a component of a path). +/** A restricted string (C identifier, which is a component of a Path). + * + * A Symbol is a very restricted string suitable for use as an identifier. + * It is a valid LV2 symbol, URI fragment, filename, OSC path fragment, + * and identifier for most programming languages (including C). + * + * Valid characters are _, a-z, A-Z, 0-9, except the first character which + * must not be 0-9. * - * A Symbol is an lv2-compliant symbol, which is also valid as a component of - * a URI, filesystem or OSC path, programming language identifier, etc. * \ingroup raul */ class Symbol : public std::basic_string<char> { |