DIMension syntax checking...

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The honourable and venerable Bob Stockler spoke thus:
> If you had used my Perl program "ck.syn" (aka "ck.table") on the
> table it would have reported:
> 
>   Line:  xxx - Array Name "pay " contains illegal character(s).
> 
> The illegal character, of course, being a space.

Except it's not really illegal--it just produced unexpected results because
it was using a different name for the array than expected due to how it was
being edited.  The problem is that it -is- legal, technically.

Now whether or not ck.syn catching that is a good or bad thing is a good
question.  It imposes an artificial rule that's apparently not part of the
actual language.  It also would have helped John find his problem more
quickly.  I guess that's one I don't wanna pretend to have an answer to.
I'm just saying there are two sides to it.

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