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Algol 68 allows spaces in identifiers. That means one has to use one of the "stropping" techniques to distinguish keywords from identifiers--case stropping (IF p THEN foo ELSE bar FI), quote stropping a la the old IBM Algol F Algol 60 compiler ('if' p 'then' foo 'else' bar 'fi'), and at least one other I don't remember offhand.


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