Re: Languages with no reserved words?

thomas.mertes@xxxxxx wrote
(in article
<1140358358.675753.22390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

casiocult...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Some languages have no reserved keywords. This, along with other
features, makes them extensible. I know of lisp, scheme, tcl. Any
others?

You must destinguish between syntax extensions and semantic extensions.

While lisp is semantically extensible, you have always the lists.

Probably i am biased, but take a look at Seed7.

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed7
Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/seed7


Looks eerily like Pascal.

However, from the wiki page...

$ include "seed7_05.s7i"; # Standard Seed7 library

That's evil. Why not something simple, like
$ include "seed7std.s7i";

Is that versioning info in the include file name? Why on earth
should that be exposed to the programmer for the standard
library? Nevermind the difficulty of typing s7i naturally. :-)




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