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!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Townley Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 21:13:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <827c60f6-b008-468b-9ab4-cf110edff252n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 20:13:29 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a592e3a042c6ca2cb1d898ecb777f402"; logging-data="3340"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/PEZZW+Hz9tGJnYkF1Ee/B6WpfxEaWvXQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AEIPHjFKHvst7y/MZayb8Z1LJiY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62098 List-Id: 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: > > (, , , ) > 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