Greg Jaxon wrote: >When they do, perhaps one lesson to learn from the "config" experience >should be to give words a decent english spelling, e.g., "configure" or >"configuration", in the manner of a Hamming code which considers >their frequency of use relative to the average source code token. Perhaps a better lesson is that when you are extending an old language and trying to maintain backward compatibility for a lot of legacy code, you can compare possible keywords against some of that legacy code. Why guess whether a keyword is going to cause a lot of conflicts, when you can test it? Steven Sharp sharp@cadence.comReceived on Tue Apr 26 19:27:59 2005
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