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On 2010-11-17 03:25, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> Among the existing keywords, "select" has nearly, but not quite, the
> right meaning:
> 
>    (for select X in domain | P (X))
> 
> But it would be better as "selected", and if a new word must be
> reserved, I agree that "some" is best. Although it is yet another nice,
> short, expressive word that will then be forbidden us for use as an
> identifier.

I think it's nice that Ada has reserved a number of short, expressive
words. Once reserved they are easy to reuse elsewhere when the language
is extended. I could imagine some future feature wanting to use 'some'
for some other purpose.

(or is that "wanting to use 'some' for when other purpose?") :)

Peter