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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: PL/I and Reserved Words
Keywords: PL/I keywords
Message-ID: <6598@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 19 Oct 89 18:28:18 GMT
References: <2958@usceast.UUCP> <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
> Finally, one can always avoid enhancing languages.  (And yes, I too
> prefer Fortran II to any of its descendents.)

You can also put new symbols into a new or restricted namespace, as X3J11
did with #pragma and __STDC__.
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