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Article #5341Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
From: Richard Schooler
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 16:09
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 16:09
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In article <3156@fluke.COM>, mce@tc (Brian McElhinney) writes: > >Are there languages other than CORAL that allow blanks in symbol names? > Fortran, of course, since blanks are insignificant except inside string literals. In some ways this is kind of nice, one can right one million as "1 000 000", and one does not have to remember whether to say "GO TO" or "GOTO", or for more modern code "END DO" or "ENDDO". This feature can be abused, of course, and it makes some aspects of parsing needlessly complex. -- Richard Schooler
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!schooler@oak.bbn.com From: schooler@oak.bbn.com (Richard Schooler) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity) Message-ID: <22367@bbn.COM> Date: 21 Mar 88 16:09:33 GMT References: <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2835@enea.se> <1810@sics.se> <3156@fluke.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: schooler@oak.bbn.com (Richard Schooler) Organization: BBN Advanced Computers, Inc. Lines: 12 In-reply-to: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)