Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words

[Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>]

AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> writes:
> 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 :-)

In a case-sensitive language, you can have 128 variations of "keyword".

keyword I Keyword 1..10 keyWord
  X(I) := I + 1;
keyworD keyWord

Much more legible.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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