puppetlabs/puppet — pull request #2661 by hlindberg (2014-05-16 01:14:32+00:00)
Title: (PUP-2581) Make illegal names interchangeable to legal variable work

In interpolation when using expression mode ${} and having an illegal
name (e.g. _x) that resulted in a syntax error as the _x got translated
to a STRING token (a bare word not being a name). The interpolation
logic could then not transform it into a (valid) variable expression
(i.e. $_x).

The change is to let the lexer emit a WORD token for the illegal NAME.
The interpolation then changes that to a VARIBLE if it is the only
expression. If the WORD token escapes into the grammar, it is equivalent
to having used a quoted string in the source text.

Note that WORD only accepts unqualified input, anything with a : that is
not a valid NAME is still flagged as an error. Thus _x::y, x::_y are
both illegal NAME.

Note that when this is merged to master, there will be conflicts due to grammar changes - the grammar must be regenerated after resolving those conflicts.