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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:27:07 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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On 08/05/12 20:15, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:32:26 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed
>>> Though not a lisper, the Python tie-in was my reply:  Python (among
>>> many other languages) doesn't allow a "-" as a character in
>>> identifiers as you appeared to use it in your code.  Unlike HTML,
>>> XML, CSS, and apparently lisp and COBOL (thanks, MRAB, for ripping
>>> open that scab after years of trying to repress those COBOL memories
>>> :-)   where identifiers may contain the dash.
>>
>> Does BNF count as a language?
> 
> 	It's a meta-language <G>

I see what you did there, using a dash in your identifier...

-tkc