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Guido van Rossum writes:

   john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:

   >I have very strong intuitions about stylistic things
   >like indenting.  One of these intuitions is that it's impossible to
   >legislate style.

   Oh?  I've never heard anybody request the right to define their own
   string quotes or reserved words (for example) in a programming
   language.  You take what the language gives you, period.  

You can (and I do) define your own keywords in Pop11. Defining your own string
quotes would be harder (because the tokenisation procedure is a constant, not a
variable, and writing tokenisers is boring).

And there's Forth, too: you can define your own keywords there (loosely
speaking, anyway; they're just "ordinary" words to Forth).

Lisp macros are (in a reasonable sense) equivant to new keywords (ie, they can
introduce new language constructs).

That's three languages which given counterexamples of varying strengths. Any
more? 

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