On 2014-04-18 09:07, Brad King wrote:
On 04/18/2014 08:58 AM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
To forbid whitespace and control characters in variable names can IMHO only be 
good.

Some people use arbitrary variable names as a way to do key/value tables.
In such cases it is intentional to use arbitrary characters in variable
names even though they are never written literally in the source.

Adding actual data types (a true list type would be an enormous improvement) could remove the need for such trickery...

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Matthew

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