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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Any easy/build-in construct to extract submatrices from larger
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Date: 2012-06-26T08:54:00-04:00
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/steelman/steelman.htm#2
>
> "Every source program shall also have a representation that
> uses only the following 55 character subset of the ASCII graphics:
>
>     %&'()*+,-./:;<=>?
>    0123456789
>    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_
>
> "
>
> You see that [] were not even in the allowed character set.

And yet string literals used double quotes, aggregates use
vertical bar, and based literals use sharp sign, even
though I don't see any of:

    " | #

listed above.  [] were not outlawed by the above requirement,
either.

- Bob