On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 01:27 am, MRAB wrote: > On 2016-06-27 14:59, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-06-26, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: >> >>> (Note, for those who don't know (old) Fortran, that spaces and tabs are >>> not significant. So those dots are needed, otherwise "a eq b" would be >>> parsed as "aeqb".) >> >> I've always been baffled by that. >> >> Were there other languages that did something similar? >> > Algol 60 and Algog 68.
Are you sure about that? I'd like to see a citation, as everything I've seen suggests that Algol treats spaces like modern languages. http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/algol60-syntaxversions.htm Space is listed as a separator, and *not* in indentifiers. -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
