From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 23:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s93kci$1f55$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s93i9e$dj9$1@dont-email.me
On 2021-05-31 22:51, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> What do others think? Should Ada have made a greater effort at
> overloading reserved words from the beginning? Should we belatedly
> object to adding parallel when we have so many choices already? Or is
> having a large set of reserved words, many of them with similar
> meanings, a good thing?
I believe that most of reserved keywords can be simply unreserved.
Actually there is no syntactic necessity except for few. The rest is
kept reserved for the sake of regularity only.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2021-05-31 20:51 Proliferation of Reserved Words Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-05-31 21:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2021-06-01 5:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-06-01 7:40 ` Paul Rubin
2021-06-03 8:48 ` Robin Vowels
2021-06-01 9:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-01 16:06 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-01 11:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-06-02 18:13 ` AdaMagica
2021-06-02 19:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-02 20:13 ` Chris Townley
2021-06-02 20:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-02 23:23 ` Bill Findlay
2021-06-03 23:58 ` Keith Thompson
2021-06-04 6:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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