[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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