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Article #6827Re: Hyphen as identifier characters
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 22:45
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 22:45
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Freek Wiedijk (freek@fwi.uva.nl) writes: >I said: > >Since hyphens are used for minus signs to, introducing them > >is not trivial, particulary not in an existsing language. E.g, > > c:=a-b; > >would suddenly be ambiguous. > >In Ada it would be worse! :-) > > n:=n-foo-bar--subtract foo-bar from n I don't understand what would make things worse in Ada. OK, I see that postponing the semi-colon to the next line you can mess it up with the comment delimiter. Incidently, if I'm not totally confused, the comment subtract foo-bar from n is perfectly correct Cobol, including the hyphen. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari!aplcen!uunet!mcsun!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Hyphen as identifier characters Message-ID: <810@enea.se> Date: 24 Feb 90 22:45:39 GMT References: <48a55876.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> <776@enea.se> <448@fwi.uva.nl> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 20