Contextualizing keywords

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Sun Aug 2 21:39:13 PDT 2009


Walter Bright escribió:
> Oliver Hoog wrote:
>> Robert Fraser schrieb:
>>> Chad J wrote:
>>>> This makes things more difficult for syntax highlighters.  A number of
>>>> them will just not work correctly because they don't actually parse the
>>>> code.
>>>> That's all I've got.
>>>
>>> Ehhh.... How often will you actually use the identifiers? The point 
>>> isn't to make them free for use, it's more to reduce the number of 
>>> people bitching about how many keywords there are.
>>
>> I guess they would still keep complaining since the number of 
>> available keywords to be remembered doesn't decrease.
> 
> There are a million words in the English language, so it's not likely 
> that we'll run short of identifier space in the conceivable future :-)
> 
> The real problem is remembering the keywords.

"Hmmm... I want to define a property... but... can't... remember... 
the... keyword... was it 'property' or something like that? I keep 
forgetting..."



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