From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,79bbf7e359159d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-10 07:34:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.rdc-detw.rr.com!news.mw.mediaone.net!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada keywords (was: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:26:40 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9av58r$33a$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <3ACDB29E.45B91316@earthlink.net> <9ao1if$cq9$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk><3ACFC902.115624A1@mindspring.com><86u23yszjo.fsf@acm.org> <9av2gs$n7f$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 986912860 3178 195.25.228.57 (10 Apr 2001 14:27:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:27:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6709 Date: 2001-04-10T16:26:40+02:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" a �crit dans le message news: 9av2gs$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... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr