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   On 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:13 GMT, "Charlie Gibbs"    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-01-01, Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 31 Dec 2023 22:50:01 GMT   
   >> TimS  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 31 Dec 2023 at 21:36:25 GMT, "Charlie Gibbs"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I remember that.  It had something to do with enclosing all keywords   
   >>>> in apostrophes in place of the bold-faced type in the reference books.   
   >>>> It was nasty both in appearance and typing.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes, yes !! That was it. Quite why we had to do that was a mystery.   
   >>   
   >>     It was so that the set of keywords in the language could be   
   >> extended without any risk of them ever being mistaken for variables. The   
   >> idea was that keywords were picked out by "stropping" them either by CASE   
   >> or with 'quotes' or by typeface (bold usually) instead of there being a set   
   >> of keywords that could not be used as variable names.   
   >   
   > That makes sense.  Remember COBOL reserved words?   
      
   What SQLite does is sort of the opposite. If you want to define a column or   
   table with what is in fact a reserved word, then you have to put double-quotes   
   around it in your definition. If you avoid reserved words then nothing (except   
   strings) needs quoting. Much better than what Algol did. Really off-putting,   
   it was.   
      
   --   
   Tim   
      
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