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6 Sep 2024 21:21:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reserved words redux  
From: andrel
Date: 17 Oct 2008 15:29:21
Message: <48F8E7E2.1010704@hotmail.com>
On 17-Oct-08 21:06, Darren New wrote:
> You know, I'm kind of surprised I've never seen a programming language 
> (that uses different fonts for different purposes. Something like 
> boldface for reserved words, italics for built-ins, so you could do 
> something like
> 
> *foreach* index *in *mylist *do *item += /length/(mylist[index])
> 
> or something like that. Then you could use things like "in" and "do" as 
> variable names as well. :-)
> 

Yes, but that would imply that the set of reserved words is static. Hmm, 
am I suffering from deja vu?


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