Re: Readable names (was Re: case se

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From: carroll
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1988 00:57

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	If I remember correctly, the canonical bug in FORTRAN is caused
by the joint property of implicit variable declarations and allowing space
in identifiers. My understanding is that the early compilers simply
removed all spaces before the parser ever saw it, so that spaces were
"allowed" in a sense.

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