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| From | "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> |
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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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Re: more keywords? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-09-15 11:02 +0100
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