From: Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 21:13:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s98op9$38c$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s98lno$ais$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 02/06/2021 20:21, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
> Yes, one needs only one pair of delimiters. It reminds me construction
> of Z in ZFS using sets:
>
> 0 = Ø
> 1 = {Ø}
> 2 = {{Ø}}
> ...
>
> Similarly the for-loop could be:
>
> (<index>, <from>, <to>, <body>)
>
Reminds me of extensive code I supported in VMS Basic - after 1500 odd
lines, the procedure ended with:
UNLESS Z
Z was not a local variable - global.
Try searching a massive code base for Z...
Took awhile dredging through the various callers
--
Chris
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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
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 [this message]
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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