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From: Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com>
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Love OT threads in this clever forum:-)

Actually there is a bit of thruth in the absurd no keyword thing: *many* ke=
ywords can get in the way of naming identifiers. Ada, for one, has a bit to=
o many keywords, with some good identifier candidates (when, others...)

This links on thread took me on a short journey where I ended up checking o=
ut YAML, because I am looking for a good data description language. I was t=
otally confused at section 2.3 Scalars (http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.h=
tml#id2760844)

At first I could not make anything of it, because I never understood "scala=
r" as anything else than something that has values (along a "scale"). [Then=
 I still could not make anything of it because they don't seem to be addres=
sing scalars at all, even in their wrong denotation, but that's a minor poi=
nt.]

A bit net surfing... it seems there is a trend now to call "scalar" to mean=
 any value!

Please fix this!

(Yes, I am expecting you to change the world.)