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Date: 4 Mar 91 13:20:15 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 7
Message 17        Sat Mar 02, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 22:23 EST
 
> ...I thought there was some (tacit) convention that words beginning
 > with a dot were ones responsible for printing certain values...

Hear, hear!  Apologies to Ray if necessary, but the names .IF .ELSE
 and .THEN are, IMHO, brain-dam---er---less than optimal.  If I were voting,
I'd say [IF] [ELSE] etc.

BTW, since I haven't seen this proposal:
 1. are these words nestable?
 2. can these words range across multiple screens linked with --> ?
 3. can these be used both in compile and interpret "state"?

- Brad

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