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From: demars@netcom.com (Dennis D.)
Subject: Re: dot syntax confusion
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:48:06 GMT
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In article <CGAY.96Feb16145224@garlix.cs.uoregon.edu>,
cgay@garlix.cs.uoregon.edu (Carl L. Gay) wrote:

>   From: demars@netcom.com (Dennis D.)
>   Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 05:32:02 GMT
>
>   Actually, there was one language that had the perfect solution to this
>   problem: Algol 68, which permitted _spaces_ in varable names! (I remember
>   when a prof in a class I took at UCLA wrote some Algol 68 code on the
>   blackboard he observerd "You're won't see this in any other computer
>   language." Twenty years later and he's still right). 
>
>In Common Lisp:
>
>(setq |My prof was wrong.| t)
>
>
>(I thought I should mention Dylan in my post, so I have.)

Thanks for the info, I didn't know Common Lisp had that feature. (As for
why my computer science prof was apparently unaware of it; well, this
class was around 1975 or 76; probably before Common Lisp? There were
several Lisp variants at the time, don't know if any of them had this.)

And thanks for mentioning Dylan, so I don't have to!

- Dennis D.
