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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Lexical analyzers and parsers
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 20:38:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 20:38:52 1984
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>> Curiously [in FORTRAN], it was decided to ignore blanks,
>> EVEN within identifiers.
>
>I don't find this at all curious, but in fact eminently reasonable.
>Many, maybe most, identifiers in the real world contain spaces,
>so why not include it in programming languages?
>For instance my identifier (Steven Pemberton) contains a space.

Come on!  You can figure out that your name is two identifiers!
Doyoureallythinkthatspacesdon'tmakethatmuchdifference?
Con side rit careful lying eneralbe fore jump ingt other espons etha
tyoudon't.
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