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		WalterBright 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obvious things C should do I did not know that. Thanks for pointing it out.

dfawcus 11 months ago [–]

mind, it is also possible that they took that from Algol 68, and 'adjusted it':

  $ a68g --strict -e '(INT a = 1 000; print((a,newline)) )'
        +1000

As Algol 68 allows spaces within numbers, as well as within identifiers.

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