[NNTP] Re: Command names

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Oct 27 04:37:31 PDT 2004


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>Looks reasonable to me, provided there aren't any other special chars 
>>that might be desirable.  What is the rationale for restricting a 
>>keyword to something less that all printable chars?
> 
> 
> It makes things more readable. Do we really want unbalanced parentheses and
> quotation marks in command names?

Absolutely not.  I guess the only additional char (beyond what you've 
outlined) which sticks out as potentially usable for keywords is '_'

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