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[Anna]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:37:27 +0000, Bengt Richter wrote:


> BTW, is there anything written on what the BDFL may have in mind for
> ':=' and '?' and '@' etc for? I'm sure he wouldn't want to squander them
> on something trivial, but I wonder if there's some indication. Similarly
> for words like "on", "when", "whenever", "before", "after", "initially",
> "finally", etc, etc.

I don't know about the rest of them, but as you may know, "finally" is
being used. It's part of some "try" statements... as a clean-up to
finalize anything necessary after any exceptions are dealt with in the try
clause. It runs whether the try had any exceptions or not... 

Anna