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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?
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