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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Hyphen as identifier characters
Message-ID: <448@fwi.uva.nl>
Date: 20 Feb 90 13:34:00 GMT
References: <48a55876.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> <776@enea.se>
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Reply-To: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <776@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
 >Since hyphens are used for minus signs to, introducing them
 >is not trivial, particulary not in an existsing language. E.g,
 >      c:=a-b;
 >would suddenly be ambiguous.

In Ada it would be worse! :-)

	n:=n-foo-bar--subtract foo-bar from n

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Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk                  Path: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!freek
#P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**