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Re: more keywords?

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bob wrote:
> Would it be better to have more keywords in a language than to continue
> to reuse keywords where they don't make sense?

MS, in C#, have taken the approach of adding "contextual" keywords -- keywords 
which are only recognised as keywords in certain circumstances and can be used 
freely as identifiers elsewhere.

Not sure I like that approach.  Mainly because it apears to lead to a 
proliferation of keywords, of which I am not fond, and complicates the parsing 
of the language (which is an important task for tools which /should/ exist, and 
even should be easy to create, for any language).  But it is an option open to 
the designer.

Most language designers, though, don't do things that way.  Possible for 
reasons similar to mine, possibly just because the parsing tools they use don't 
lend themselves to that approach.

    -- chris 

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more keywords? bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-09-14 08:03 -0700
  Re: more keywords? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-14 08:34 -0700
    Re: more keywords? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-15 02:42 -0500
  Re: more keywords? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-09-15 11:02 +0100

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