Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!ttds!draken!kth!sics!pd
From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
Message-ID: <1816@sics.se>
Date: 21 Mar 88 13:56:56 GMT
References: <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2835@enea.se> <1810@sics.se> <3156@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: pd@sics.UUCP (Per Danielsson)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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In article <3156@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
>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?

Yes, Algol-68 allows whitespace in symbol names. Whitespace has no
significance at all in Algol-68, which means that it is *not* a part
of the symbol name, it's simply ignored. Of course, Algol-68 uses a
different typeface for other syntactic elements than symbol names, which
you might call cheating. :-)
In a real implementation capital letters are used instead of the
separate typeface, leaving lower case letters for identifiers. The
code becomes very readable if you remember to put in a few blanks here
and there in your symbol names.
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