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"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote in message
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All words in every dictionary, in every language, are reserved in the
language.

You're pulling my leg. All we're left with for identifiers are digits and
mathematical symbols. I can live with that, but it's called APL.

S.

PS Or you could have whitespace as identifiers. What, whitespace being
meaningful? What crazy idea is that? Think OCCAM, think Python...

PPS I realise you've not reseved identifiers such as Make1More-- at least,
not if I interpret your rather vague description of "words" in its everyday
sense (regardless of alphabet); I don't know of any alphabet that uses
digits in words; admittedly in Japanese and perhaps Chinese the traditional
forms of writing numbers alludes to them being words, but I feel that that
for the sake of this argument it is no different from writing "one" instead
of "1".


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