Re: New reserved words?

[Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:


> At this point (after the Palma de Mallorca meeting), there is likely to be
> three added keywords:
> 
>     interface (AI-251)
>     overriding (AI-218-3)
>     synchronized (AI-345)
> 
> Whether these will be new reserved words, or whether we'll define
> "unreserved keywords" is still undecided.
> 
> [Note that the last one was added very recently; it is a modifier for
> interfaces, and it declares that an interfaces can only be implemented by a
> task or protected type. There are also 'task' and 'protected' interfaces,
> with the obvious semantics. We also approved making 'limited' interfaces
> universal, in that they can be implemented by tagged, limited tagged, task,
> and protected types -- pretty much everything that makes sense.]

Ada is a fairly large language already - as a trainer I'ld prefer to have
them as reserved words rather than creating a new category that has to
be explained.

Dale

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