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In article <JBW.91Jun11165952@maverick.uswest.com>, jbw@maverick.uswest.com (Joe Wells) writes:
> In article <541@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:

>    (A)  Brutally stripped syntax.  The only special characters are (){} and
>    the white space characters.  There are no quote characters, no meta
>    characters and no escape character, and no need for them.

> Does this mean that the NUL character (0) is treated like a letter?

No - but it's an interesting thought.  The character set is all printable
characters.  Special characters, in this context, are punctuation characters,
characters used as operators, etc.  For example, +-=,.[](){}!~&|$\ etc in
the UNIX shell.  It is a design spec that OS commands be legal Lakota commands,
in so far as possible, i.e. a Lakota script can have a mixture of Lakota
and UNIX shell commands under UNIX or Lakota and DCL under VMS.  The
stripped syntax is a consequence.  For this purpose, Lakota is an extension
language over the underlying OS command language; to avoid syntax conflicts
one avoids attaching special meaning to any character that has special meaning
in the underlying OS languages of interest.

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