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Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++
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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@uni-duisburg.de>
Date: 04 Oct 2003 15:29:17 +0200
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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:

: "Matt Gregory" <bleah-no-more-spam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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:: > 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'

ML allows minus {minus} as identifiers, and also ":->" and the like,
though not ":-)".


Georg