Attitude about new keywords

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sat Feb 8 18:15:34 EST 2003


Paul Rubin <phr-n2003b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote:
> I'd like to ask a meta-question about this: why is adding new keywords
> something to be so urgently avoided?

It breaks existing code because words that used to be legal to use as 
variables are now reserved keywords.




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