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Dick Hendrickson  
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 More options Jul 30 2012, 7:02 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.pl1, comp.lang.cobol
From: Dick Hendrickson <dick.hendrick...@att.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:02:56 -0500
Local: Mon, Jul 30 2012 7:02 pm
Subject: Re: Reserved Words
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On 7/30/12 3:50 PM, Robert Wessel wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:32:22 -0400, Kerry Liles
> <kerry.li...@gmail.com>  wrote:

>> On 7/30/2012 4:20 PM, Qolin wrote:

>>> "Pete Dashwood"  wrote in message news:a7m1ueFdc9U1@mid.individual.net...

>>> <snip>

>>>> Now consider it from the point of view of the compiler writer.
>>>> If there are NO reserved words how would you implement a language?

>>> ...Last I heard, Fortran had no reserved words, and it doesn't seem to
>>> prevent a fair number of implementations.

>> No reserved words? It has been a long time since I used Fortran, but I
>> rather doubt:

>> DO DO=1 TO 10

>> would work would it?

> Well,

>    DO DO=1,10

> would work, anyway.

       do do = l to l0
should work (in some sense of "work").

You can also do
        print print, print
or
        write (write) write
but not
        read (read) read

It's a flexible language.  ;)

Dick Hendrickson


 
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