Allow dashes in identifiers
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name.  However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common.  The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying.  So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:
  dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };
and
  buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];
Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
			
			
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		|  | @ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static Expr * unescapeStr(SymbolTable & symbols, const char * s) | |||
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| ID          [a-zA-Z\_][a-zA-Z0-9\_\']* | ||||
| ID          [a-zA-Z\_][a-zA-Z0-9\_\'\-]* | ||||
| INT         [0-9]+ | ||||
| PATH        [a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]*(\/[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]+)+ | ||||
| SPATH       \<[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]+(\/[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]+)*\> | ||||
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