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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.s...@nocrew.org>
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Subject: Re: Name for the set of characters legal in identifiers
Date: 14 Jan 2004 13:45:54 +0100
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wallacethinmi...@eircom.net (Russell Wallace) writes:
> I was making heavy use of a concept I didn't have a name for, which
> rather bugged me; Lisp is one of the very few languages which allow
> non-alphanumeric characters in symbols

So does Forth, so perhaps programmers using that language have a name
for it.

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