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On 6/1/21 7:54 AM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> At least twice it was proposed that Ada have "keywords", identifiers with
> special meaning in the syntax but that were not reserved.

Unreserved keywords are one approach, though I'm not aware if they come with any 
negatives. Then the question becomes which reserved words could become 
unreserved keywords. (This can be restricted to reserved words related to 
tasking/concurrency to avoid going through all the reserved words.)

> At that time, WG 9 still voted by countries

Does that imply that the voting has since changed and such a proposal might now 
be accepted?

> Jeff Carter should note the 8 different uses for "with" in the syntax before
> he accuses anyone of not reusing reserved words in Ada. It's just the case
> that it's hard to write something meaningful with the existing reserved
> words (we almost always try).

I agree that the ARG has done a good job in reusing reserved words in many 
cases, "with" being the most obvious. I concentrated on tasking/concurrency 
reserved words since that seems to be an exception.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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