[Lexer] Disallow '$' as a start of identifier, special handle '$
'
#6004
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I believe, accepting
`$0`
as an identifier was not intentional. It was not allowed in Swift2/3.0This behavior was introduced in #5270 which intended to allow
`$`
as an identifier.I think, we shouldn't generally consider
$
as a valid start character for identifiers.Instead, handle
`$`
specially.