reserved words

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Fri Jan 31 15:44:01 EST 2003


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.

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