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Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator WAS: OOP Preprocessor "eo4"

• Posted by Andy Cranston <Andy.Cranston at EUPHONY.CO.UK> Sep 18, 2000
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It gets worse - I once worked at a company whose assembler allowed variable
and constant identifiers to contain spaces but when it assembled your code
dropped all the spaces!  Using a symbolic debugger was not fun.  You would
have called a routine "DOS STD DO IT" and the debugger displays and requires
you to type "DOSSTDDOIT" - I feel the nightmares returning /

Out of historic interest does anyone know of other languages which allow
spaces and other "strange" characters in identifier names?

Regards,

Andy Cranston,
  in continuing jest 

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Parnell [mailto:dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU]
Sent: 18 September 2000 11:34
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator WAS: OOP Preprocessor
"eo4" not generic


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Cranston" <Andy.Cranston at EUPHONY.CO.UK>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator WAS: OOP Preprocessor "eo4"
not generic
>  Personal peeve: I hate spaces in file names - what a kludge -
> use an underscore!

What_is_the_problem_with_spaces_in_file_names? 

> Do any conventions or best practices exist for dealing with the above
> problems?
>

Use a Macintosh? Amiga? VMS? OS/400? OS/390? ...

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in jest,
Derek.