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Re: literals and keywords

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On 29/12/2013 03:14, Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> I suspect that not also classing them as keywords might be intended to
> keep classes of tokens disjoint. Each token is either a keyword, or a
> literal, or white space, etc. but cannot be more than one of those things.

That certainly makes sense.

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Re: literals and keywords Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-12-28 19:14 -0800
  Re: literals and keywords Sigebriht <sigebriht@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-07 15:04 +0000

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