From: mathieu stumpf guntz <psychoslave@culture-libre.org>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 23:23:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c2a86f8-d5b3-474b-8aac-3751968a1120@culture-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <049465fb-b49d-9984-73ce-fd5672bec01a@eastlink.ca>
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Le 30/12/2017 à 18:16, Ray Andrews a écrit :
>
> When you put it that way, yes, the horror diminishes ... just so long
> as no anarchist tries to redefine 'alias' or some such thing. There
> HAS to be something who's meaning is not negotiable.
>
> #define define "undefine"
> #define undefine "define"
> alias alias="this must surely be forbidden"
There are only a few things that must be intepreted in a clearly defined
consensual way for a very limited and well specified context.
By the way, "alias" in Esperanto means "is other than" and as such would
certainly make a great keyword for the inequality operator. :)
>
> I dunno, maybe there are reasons to want to fiddle with reserved words
> but it seems blasphemous to me. Never mind.
Uttering some blasphemes might be a strong motivational per se. :)
But to give a broader context this is in fact investigated as part of
this wikiversity research project about internationalisation of
programming languages:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Internationalisation_of_Programming_Languages
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-30 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-28 15:07 mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-28 15:19 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 8:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 10:51 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 19:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 19:29 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 19:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 20:27 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-29 23:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30 1:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30 9:50 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 10:05 ` Frank Terbeck
2017-12-30 17:22 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 22:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30 23:00 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 17:16 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 22:23 ` mathieu stumpf guntz [this message]
2017-12-30 23:06 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 23:32 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 9:36 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 17:39 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-29 22:59 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2017-12-29 8:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 10:24 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
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