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In article <22367@bbn.COM> schooler@oak.bbn.com (Richard Schooler) writes:
>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.  

Then there's the old Apple II BASIC (seems almost as old as FORTRAN :-)
which let you type in whole lines of code without any spaces whatsoever
(except in string literals, where spaces are significant).  As each line is
typed in, the line is parsed and tokenized, but it always had trouble with
a line like: 10 FORI=ATOB because AT and TO are both tokens, this line
would get parsed to 10 FOR I = AT OB which ain't right, and wouldn't work
either :-).

Disclaimer: The last time I programmed in Apple BASIC was about 4 years
ago, so the above is dredged up from memory, and may not be entirely
correct.  I also believe that the BASIC that comes with the ProDOS setup
is different, but not having programmed in it, I dunno.

>				-- Richard Schooler

	-- Ted

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 program halfway across the page!" -- Me (A Basic programmer for 12 years)
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Ted M. Young          \ tmy6405@acf3.nyu.edu  \ "..restless young romantic,
3801 Hudson Manor Terr.\ tmy6405@NYU-ACF3.ARPA \ wants to run the big machine"
Riverdale, NY 10463-1111\ Compu$erve:76703,4343 \    yeah, my own Cray! 8-)