Hyphens in column names in MySQL DB

Question

May be this question has been answered before but I couldn\'t find it.

I am using a 2/3 yr old MySQL database which has hyphens in its column names. When I try to us

Answer 1

This entry at the MySQL forum suggests that you might have a problem. However, I think it's referring to data and not column names.

This says "don't do it." Don't know how authoritative it is.