Is there any language that allows spaces in its variable names [closed]

Question

Is there (or was there ever) any non-trivial language that allows spaces in its variable names?

I am aware of the language Whitespace, but I'm interested in a language that was actually used for something besides demonstration.

I ask this out of pure curiosity.

Surber

weird question... well PHP allows it, in an obscure way ` $foobar = "bar foo"; ${$foobar} = "foo bar"; var_dump(get_defined_vars(${$foobar}));` – Tierney

Windows set command considers spaces before = in the variable name. So set var = will create a variable called %var % but set var= will create a variable called %var% – Glennieglennis

Answer 1

In a way, yes. Several languages's variable names are really just keys to a higher-level object. Both Coldfusion and Javascript come to mind. In Javascript, you can write foo=bar, but what you've really said is:

window['foo'] = bar;

You could just as easily write

window['i haz a name'] = bar;

The various scopes in Coldfusion can also be treated as either a (dict|hash|associative array) or a name.

Of course, once you've created a name with whitespace, it's harder to access without using the hash lookup syntax.

Recording

Thanks kojiro, I guess this an SQL is as close as any language comes, you get the point because you were first. – Surber

Answer 2

TSQL will allow you to use whitespace in table and column names aslong as you have it between square braces [ ]

Theres a fantastic article on just what sql will let you get away with here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/philfactor/archive/2009/08/14/evil-code.aspx

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