Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Reserved identifiers, was Re: Thoughts on moving towards ANSI
Message-ID: <1989Feb14.144954.13693@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <50499@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 14:49:54 GMT

In article <50499@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@cs.yale.edu (Jerry Leichter) writes:
>... There are NO reserved words in PL/I! ...  That most people are
>not aware of this feature of PL/I is testimony to the fact that it is possible
>for the resulting grammar to be quite natural.

Or to the fact that many PL/I compilers *do* have reserved words, i.e. they
do not implement the full language.  (In fact, has there ever been a PL/I
compiler that implemented the *entire* language?)
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