From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 23:27:49 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.2 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62067 List-Id: On 2021-05-31 22:51, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > What do others think? Should Ada have made a greater effort at > overloading reserved words from the beginning? Should we belatedly > object to adding parallel when we have so many choices already? Or is > having a large set of reserved words, many of them with similar > meanings, a good thing? I believe that most of reserved keywords can be simply unreserved. Actually there is no syntactic necessity except for few. The rest is kept reserved for the sake of regularity only. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de