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Why `.` is not allowed in kotlin function names even when backticked? Is there :youtrack: for this? (IIRC scala and groovy can have dots.)

I answered this on stackoverflow: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49358917/why-kotlin-does-not-allow-slash-in-identifiers/49359005#49359005>

Why not do whatever scala and groovy are doing?

It adds complexity and they didn't think it was worth it?

Sure, I guess, it’s not straightforward. No :youtrack: though?

(This is something I missed from day one and it keeps coming up, but I never bothered reporting assuming it’s already in youtrack upvoted.)

I can't find one, feel free to create it :simple_smile: . Out of curiosity, why do you want this so bad?

Full stop is quite common in English language. And in software to express versions (e.g. 1.5). The most important thing I guess is that I always thought that conceptually “backticks” were supposed to give you the freedom of the language identifier rules. 

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-29419>