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Re: special feature or dark area?? hostname's hyphen character brings in
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Tod Oace |
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Re: special feature or dark area?? hostname's hyphen character brings inconsistency in cfengine |
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Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:46:12 -0700 |
On Sep 1, 2004, at 22:15, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
Hyphens cannot be used in class names, just as they cannot be used in
variable names in any language I know of.
Cobol. In Cobol I vaguely recall subtraction being done something like
this:
987600 PLEASE SUBTRACT THIS-NUMBER FROM THAT-NUMBER
987610- GIVING THAT-OTHER-NUMBER.
987620- THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Cobol is what is known as a higher level language. Instead of using
complicated symbols like '-' you use English phrases, making it easier
to understand for humans.
987630 PS SECTION
987640 I'm half kidding!
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Tod Oace, Intel Corporation <tod@intel.com>