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From: jefu@pawl17.pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
Message-ID: <578@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 88 11:38:58 GMT
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In article <1816@sics.se> pd@sics.UUCP (Per Danielsson) writes:
: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. :-)

Just out of curiosity (as i couldnt fit more than about another copy of
my .signature into my disk quota) does anyone know of an algol 68 
implementation for Suns?  Or even for PC's? 
jeff putnam  
{jefu%pawl -or- jeff_putnam%rpitsmts}@itsgw.rpi.edu
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