From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-04 15:43:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!news2.telusplanet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F7F4653.5F6DDACA@acm.org> From: "John W. Krahn" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-4GB i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> <3F7C37C3.B5469C33@Sonnack.com> <86r81tnnbm.fsf@sonnenregen.at.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:15:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.183.115.195 X-Trace: news2.telusplanet.net 1065305747 66.183.115.195 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 16:15:47 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 16:15:47 MDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:58 comp.programming:365 comp.lang.c++:905 comp.lang.ada:239 Date: 2003-10-04T22:15:47+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Dowie writes: > > : "Matt Gregory" wrote in message > : news:BPvfb.20445 > :: > Agreed! I wish that more languages allowed hyphen use in > :: identifiers. > Dylan is the only one I can think of off the top of > :: my head. > :: > :: Lisp and Scheme. > > : COBOL > > Also a few languages, like SNOBOL4, that allow you to have > any string as a variable name, > > $'The Shoemaker - page 3' = 'Once upon a time' You can do the same thing in Perl: ${'The Shoemaker - page 3'} = 'Once upon a time'; And since perl interpolates in double quoted strings you can include any 8 bit value: ${"\xFF\0\t\cV"} = 'Once upon a time'; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment