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   On 31 Dec 2023 22:50:01 GMT   
   TimS  wrote:   
      
   > On 31 Dec 2023 at 21:36:25 GMT, "Charlie Gibbs"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > I remember that.  It had something to do with enclosing all keywords   
   > > in apostrophes in place of the bold-faced type in the reference books.   
   > > It was nasty both in appearance and typing.   
   >   
   > Yes, yes !! That was it. Quite why we had to do that was a mystery.   
      
   	It was so that the set of keywords in the language could be   
   extended without any risk of them ever being mistaken for variables. The   
   idea was that keywords were picked out by "stropping" them either by CASE   
   or with 'quotes' or by typeface (bold usually) instead of there being a set   
   of keywords that could not be used as variable names.   
      
   --   
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