Re: Ada keywords (was: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!)

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> a �crit dans le message news: 9av2gs$n7f$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> I understand why the official standard for Ada wouldn't allow keywords to be
> translated to other languages - obvious possible problems with collisions of
> keywords with identifiers & all the validation problems that would ensue.
> However why would it be a problem for some company - say in France - that
> wanted to use Ada (and had no porting issues) to go ahead and define their
> own language. Call it "La Ada" or something else. It would be simple to
> write a preprocessor that would translate French keywords into the
> corresponding English keywords and so long as you never used the English
> keywords for identifiers, it should pass straight into a standard Ada
> compiler. Problem solved? (Aside from the fact that I generally dislike
> preprocessors - this one at least wouldn't be much of an intrusion into
> normal life since it doesn't change anything semantically.)
>
OK, let's play RBKD while he's not listening...

Well, of course, this is simply a matter of source representation, and the standard has nothing to say about source representation.
You can perfectly assume that the source representation for "if" is "si", no problem...

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