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Issue: TAGBODY-CONTENTS (version 1)



   Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 17:24:43 PDT
   From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>

   I'm happy with the restrictions proposed.

   For the record, I believe the reason pdp10 MacLisp allowed numbers,
   including flonums, as tags was that Ira Goldstein's LLOGO (a LOGO
   system written entirely in Lisp) just used READ for the statement
   numbers, and they looked like floats; e.g., 1.1, 1.2, ... etc.  There
   may be more to it, but I distinctly remember an event like this in
   the distant past.

That is exactly what I recall.
--Guy