metaperl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, keywords are always reserved. The one major language that tried to do otherwise was PL/I, where you could code, e.g.:
if if = if then then = else else else = if ((of course, '=' was also polimorpically read as either assignment OR comparison -- I gather that most Basic dialects still do that!-)). IBM (PL/I's inventor and rabid defender) found out the hard way that making the parser more complicated, slow and bug-prone in order to allow such absurd obfuscation was NOT a popular trade-off -- despite IBM's alleged monopoly power, PL/I is now basically dead while the older, crankier languages that PL/I wanted to replace, Cobol and particularly Fortran, are still quite alive (and with reserved words ALWAYS reserved -- like in C, Python, Java, C#, Haskell, and basically every language that's even halfway sensible;-). > Is Python 3k going to fix this sort of thing? Fortunately not, or we'd all be busy studying Ruby or Boo!-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
