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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: anomaly
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:37:16 +1200
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> With programming languages, the designer can take the same route as Pascal
> or Java, and define standard functions as keywords that cannot be shadowed
> or redefined.

Nit: Pascal's standard types and functions are not reserved
words, they're predeclared identifiers, much as in Python,
and as far as I know can be shadowed.

-- 
Greg