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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:06:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lysg21zi0f.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s94i2o$5hl$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> At least twice it was proposed that Ada have "keywords", identifiers with 
> special meaning in the syntax but that were not reserved. The last time (and 
> I forget precisely when that was), the ARG had a slight majority in favor of 
> unreserved keywords as well as reserved words. 

interface, perhaps? I know we had quite a few identifiers with that
spelling!

TextUML is case-sensitive, so if you want to use a keyword as an
identifier you can capitalize it, or prefix it with a backslash

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 16:06 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2021-06-01 11:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-06-02 18:13   ` AdaMagica
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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