Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2021-06-04 01:58, Keith Thompson wrote:
> AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> writes:
>> accept, entry vs. procedure, procedure body
>>
>> This discussion really is 40 years late. But entries and procedures are in fact very different beasts.
>> A procedure is reentrant and has exactly one body.
>> An entry is not reentrant and cannot be called recursively; it has no body, rather it may have as many accept statements as you like or feel necessary (it may even have none - what the heck!).
>>
>> So different keywords for them are quite reasonable.
>>
>> Thinking about this:
>> Ultimatey, we could perhaps do with just one reserved word called keyword. Depending on the place where is stands makes it clear what it means:
>> keyword I keyword 1..10 keyword
>>    X(I) := I + 1;
>> Keyword;
>>
>> Hm, perhaps a bit extreme :-)
> 
> In a case-sensitive language, you can have 128 variations of "keyword".

In a Unicode language it is much more, because many Latin glyphs like k, 
e, y, o repeat in other alphabets. Furthermore, F, K, C appear as 
special entries as degrees etc.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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