Re: stop adding keywords to C++

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From: J. Kanze
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 15:59

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Tim Hollebeek (tim@franck.Princeton.EDU) wrote:

    [Considering the new tokens "or", et al...]
|> Now back to the issue at hand.  Having lots of keywords makes this
|> problem even worse, unless you have an editor that can highlight them
|> automatically for you.  The are simply too hard to pick out by eye.
|> && is much easier to see and recognize than 'and' is.

But is ??!??! really more readable that or?  (I will admit that it is
easy to pick out:-).)
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