[CWB] show +no

[Stefan Evert]

> On 13 Nov 2017, at 23:32, Hardie, Andrew <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> To my knowledge, there’s no way of quoting corpus/attribute identifiers alas (conceivably there should be!).

In the SVN version of CQP, identifiers can now be quoted with backticks if they are reserved words.  Some examples:

	`MU` = [lemma = "meeting|union"];
	group `MU` match lemma;

	show +`no`;
	
	[`size` = "\d{5,}"];

Note that the usual rules for identifiers still apply, so you can't use `007` as an attribute or query result name. Sorry. :-)

Also, keep in mind that reserved words need not be quoted in label definitions and qualified label references, and backticks are not accepted in these contexts:

	[pos = "JJ.*"] no: [pos="JJ.*"]* [pos="NN.*"] :: `no` & no.lemma = match.lemma;

It would be nice if someone could test the new feature, esp. whether the backticks work in all required contexts and whether there are any unintended consequences.

Best,
Stefan