Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)

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From: Robert Firth
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 20:08

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In article <3156@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:

>Are there languages other than CORAL that allow blanks in symbol names?

If by blanks you mean "white space", then this is allowed by two of
the oldest & best known languages: Algol-60 and Fortran.  The ways
of designing the language to permit white space in identifiers are
very well known; so well known that I believe the decision not to
allow white space is always a conscious one.

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Subject: Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
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