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Date: | 1999-11-03 (20:43) |
From: | Benoit de Boursetty <debourse@e...> |
Subject: | Re: Internationalizing the language |
A quick comment on one my previous post, that somewhat moderates my ardour: > * The language of keywords should not change, otherwise it would > make international program exchanges difficult. > > This remark is irrelevant: automatic translation is easy between different > syntaxes of the same language. It's just another pretty printing of the > abstract syntax tree. I wasn't thinking that during such a translation, collisions are likely to occur between identifiers and keywords (identifiers that aren't keywords in the first language syntax become so in the second one). You run into problems then. My apologies for having made such a peremptory statement. BdB.