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Re: special feature or dark area?? hostname's hyphen characterbrings inc
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Chip Seraphine |
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Re: special feature or dark area?? hostname's hyphen characterbrings inconsistency in cfengine |
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Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:00:26 -0500 |
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On Thursday 02 September 2004 13:37, Joe Moore wrote:
> >> Hyphens cannot be used in class names, just as they cannot be used in
> >> variable names in any language I know of.
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> > Cobol. In Cobol I vaguely recall subtraction being done something like
> > this:
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> > 987600 PLEASE SUBTRACT THIS-NUMBER FROM THAT-NUMBER
> >
> (supports-hyphens-in-identifiers lisp)
> t
I think I'm fairly comfortable with a language that disagrees with both Cobol
and Lisp on syntax issues :-)
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