Re: for or against equality, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea?

Robert Prins <robert@prino.org>
Thu, 6 Jan 2022 19:07:20 +0000

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From: Robert Prins <robert@prino.org>
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 19:07:20 +0000
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Posted-Date: 06 Jan 2022 13:14:07 EST

On 2022-01-06 08:11, David Brown wrote:
> On 05/01/2022 11:25, Martin Ward wrote:
>
> Your tools should tell you if you are accidentally using a reserved word as an
> identifier.


Your language should not have reserved words, if PL/I (AD 1964) could already do
without them...


'nuff said!


Robert
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lot of us think a reasonable number of reserved words are fine and make it less
likely that a typo will silently change the meaning of a program. -John]

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