Re: A86: Compression Program

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Subject: Re: A86: Compression Program
From: Dux Gregis <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 19:00:36 -0400
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Dan Eble wrote:

> On Sat, 16 May 1998, Kirk Meyer wrote:
>
> > would remain if you deleted the program. but if we can all agree on
> > having all temporary variables begin with the * character then i'll
> > write a program that removes them all at the user's request...
>
> Why not make the program more robust and have it list all variables with
> illegal names?
>
> Does anyone know of a call to check the validity of a variable name?
> There must be one somewhere.
>

I don't think the calc does that.  Every time the OS displays variables, its
sorting algorithm probably skips over invalid characters.

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Re: A86: Compression Program

From: Dan Eble <eble@cis.ohio-state.edu>