Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!aurora!labrea!agate!ucbvax!GWUVM.BITNET!MFELDMAN From: MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (Mike Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: FST Modula-2 Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 88 00:52:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 RE: question about underscore characters: Neither Pascal nor Modula-2 allows underscores in the official alphabet. (I checked Wirth 3 ed. and the official Pascal standard on this). If you have written identifiers with underscores using some extended Pascal, you are out of luck (these won't even compile on a "standard" Pascal compiler). As a computer science professor I have developed a real "thing" about language standards. People don't read them and compilers don't implement them correctly. I realize this is a list on Modula-2 - but one of the nice things we can all say about Ada is that the standard is well known, and the US government tests compilers for standard conformance (including the prohibition against supersetting). You wouldn't have this problem with Ada. Sigh...