Property names starting with digits

[icraggs]

Using the JSONata exerciser at http://try.jsonata.org - not sure which version that is.

data {"7a":33, "a7":55, "7":88}:

7a -> Syntax error: “a”
“7a” -> “7a”
7a -> 33

$.7a -> Syntax error: “a”
$.“7a” -> 33
$.7a -> 33

but:

$.7 -> 88

It seems inconsistent to allow $.7 but not $.7a unquoted (or unticked). Identifiers which start with a digit should be treated the same way regardless of whether they consist entirely of digits or only partly, in my opinion. I prefer that they should need to be enclosed.

[andrew-coleman]

I agree, $.7 should be a syntax error. Looks like a bug in the parser.