From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:13:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <827c60f6-b008-468b-9ab4-cf110edff252n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s956ql$1oi6$1@gioia.aioe.org>
accept, entry vs. procedure, procedure body
This discussion really is 40 years late. But entries and procedures are in fact very different beasts.
A procedure is reentrant and has exactly one body.
An entry is not reentrant and cannot be called recursively; it has no body, rather it may have as many accept statements as you like or feel necessary (it may even have none - what the heck!).
So different keywords for them are quite reasonable.
Thinking about this:
Ultimatey, we could perhaps do with just one reserved word called keyword. Depending on the place where is stands makes it clear what it means:
keyword I keyword 1..10 keyword
X(I) := I + 1;
Keyword;
Hm, perhaps a bit extreme :-)
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-31 20:51 Proliferation of Reserved Words Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-05-31 21:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-01 5:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-06-01 7:40 ` Paul Rubin
2021-06-03 8:48 ` Robin Vowels
2021-06-01 9:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-01 16:06 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-01 11:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-06-02 18:13 ` AdaMagica [this message]
2021-06-02 19:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-02 20:13 ` Chris Townley
2021-06-02 20:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-02 23:23 ` Bill Findlay
2021-06-03 23:58 ` Keith Thompson
2021-06-04 6:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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