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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
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Date: 18 Mar 88 21:13:16 GMT
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In article <1810@sics.se> pd@sics.UUCP (Per Danielsson) writes:

> There are programming languages which allow blanks in identifiers,
> and rightly so, since there's no reason not to.

Well, some might argue that the resulting code is not as readable (since
whitespace is often used to visually separate syntax elements).

The only language I am aware of that allows embedded blanks is CORAL.
It has the mis-feature of allowing any number of blanks ("the horror...
the horror...").

Are there languages other than CORAL that allow blanks in symbol names?


Brian McElhinney
mce@tc.fluke.com