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>>>Are there languages other than CORAL that allow blanks in symbol names?
>>Fortran, of course, since blanks are insignificant except inside
>>string literals.  
>Then there's the old Apple II BASIC (seems almost as old as FORTRAN :-)

Ah, but nothing beats Common Lisp, in which you can have a variable whose
name consists of nothing but a blank.  (You can write it as | | or as \ ,
but whether it prints in one of those ways or simply as a blank space
depends on how you've set the printing parameters.)  And you can have a
different variable whose name consists of two blanks.  And one whose name
consists of three blanks.  And, of course, you can have a variable whose
name consists of no characters at all.  :-(

William Clinger
Semantic Microsystems, Inc.