[sc34wg3] CTM - Keywords reserved or not?
Lars Heuer
heuer at semagia.com
Fri Nov 2 09:42:31 EDT 2007
[...]
> In CTM we've only four built-ins:
> - def
> - end
> - isa
> - ako
> IMO it is possible to keep them not reserved, although I have to check
> this issue more carefully.
> def isa end
> isa isa ako
I investigated this issue a bit further and came to the conclusion,
that we should disallow
def isa end
If something starts with "def" the parser should assume that this
starts a template definition. Although I think it is possible to allow
"def isa end", it puts some burden on the implementations and may slow
the parsing process down.
"end isa def" is possible, though.
If I understood the proposed solution for
<http://www.ontopia.net/tmwiki/topic.jsp?id=tmql-reserved-keywords>
right, the TMQL editors go down the same road: If something starts
with "select", a select query is assumed etc.
My proposal is that we do not reserve "def", "end", "isa" and "ako",
but if something starts with "def" a template definition is assumed.
CTM would then steal just one possible item identifier "def" which
cannot be used to start a topic block.
Is that acceptable?
Other ideas?
Best regards,
Lars
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