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XY->
XY-> 1. If you use an underline character in stead of the hyphen for labels, the
 -> won't split at the end of a line.
 -> 2. Labels are case-sensitive (as I keep rediscovering!). I've found that
 -> sometimes my XPL programs are easier to read and revise if the labels are i
 -> uppercase or in a mixture, as in ≪LB_MainLoop≫ or ≪LB_WHERE≫.

Thank you, XyW, but credit to my annotating goes to Nathan
Sivin. After not showing (or really doing) any XPL for years, I
had sent him two programs; he commented that they were
unintelligible. I thought, Huh--my programming's crystal. Then I
tried reading my programs and wondered, Why did I do that? And
I then realized that notes helped me as much as anyone else.

Thank you for the tips: You're quite right about the underline;
it's far more readable, as is the use of mixed case. (I've seen
it, edited it, but it never occurred to me.)

XY-> BTW (I'm new to the group) -- has anyone done a macro that changes mailing
 -> list listings to XPL?

What format are you referring to? Data from a database?

--Chet
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