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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
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Date: 2012-04-16T22:24:41-05:00
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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>> Amado-Alves claimed that "when" and "others" show that the number
>> of reserved words in Ada is too large, because they are good
>> candidates for identifiers.
>
> Surely "when" and "at" are prefect names for a formal parameter of the 
> type
> Time.

I was going to say that; I tend to write such parameters from time-to-time, 
and after the compiler complains, I change them to something wordier. But 
that's not necessarily helpful, as formal parameter names can be (and ought 
to be) used in calls:

      Open_Gates (To_Percent => 0.75, When => Clock + 3600.00);

(Not to mention us compiler-writers, which want to have enumerations named 
"Array" and "Record" and "Access" for describing kinds of types.)

                         Randy.