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