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Re:Bosque Programming Language by TomMarius on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:44AM (#23190151)
So we will refuse to allow symbols in identifiers after all?
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Re:Bosque Programming Language by traes on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:48PM (#23198433)
The only programming languages where arithmetic symbols are allowed identifiers have an identifier sigil (ala Perl, PHP), require whitespace around arithmetic (some teaching languages), or don't have conventional arithmetic syntax (e.g. Forth, Lisp).
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Re:Bosque Programming Language by TomMarius on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:31AM (#23201542)
Please read the comment I originally answered to.
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