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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/11
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James Gilesm wrote:

> It's very BAD language design to use the same keywords for
> several distinct language features.

I'm sorry but i would have to strongly disagree here. People
are masters at contextual interpretation of the semantics of
words. There are so many words in English that are decoded
based on context (even pronunciation!) that I doubt this is
really an issue.

For example in Ada the word "new" is used for many uses...

   type X is new Integer; -- type derivation

   package X is new Blah (Integer); -- package instantiation

   fred := new Integer; -- heap allocation


Dale