reserved words

[erik hansen]

--- "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jeanne at runrev.com>
wrote:
> At 3:45 PM -0800 1/29/03, erik hansen wrote:
> >--- Klaus Major <klaus.major at metascape.org>
> wrote:
> >> You use lots of reserved word in your
> handlers,
> >> be it as a handler name
> >> ("left", "right", "home" etc...) or names of
> >> variables ("num" as the
> >> most obvious example).
> >
> >on the trail of the elusive "reserved word"...
> >
> >ï no luck in the Transcript Dictionary.
> 
> That's because "reserved word" isn't part of
> the Transcript language. (You
> need to look in the glossary.)
> 
> >any idea how to identify all "reserved words"
> if
> >that is a RR term?
> 
> Almost all the words listed in the dictionary
> are reserved words and can't
> be used as variable or handler names. (Those
> that are not actually reserved
> probably should not be used in this way anyway,
> because it's confusing.) So
> if you're in doubt, check to see whether your
> proposed name is one of the
> terms in the Dictionary, and if it is, choose a
> different name.

ok, thanks.

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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