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"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