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From: schooler@oak.bbn.com (Richard Schooler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
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Date: 21 Mar 88 16:09:33 GMT
References: <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2835@enea.se> <1810@sics.se> <3156@fluke.COM>
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In-reply-to: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)


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.  In some ways this is kind of nice, one can right one
million as "1 000 000", and one does not have to remember whether to
say "GO TO" or "GOTO", or for more modern code "END DO" or "ENDDO".
This feature can be abused, of course, and it makes some aspects of
parsing needlessly complex.
				-- Richard Schooler