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Re: stop adding keywords to C++

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From: Mikael Steldal
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 01:32
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>    [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? 

No, definitly not. One disadvantage with C that C++ has inherited is
that it is so many strange symbols you have to learn. These new
keywords is a good way to make C++ easier. Trigraphs are really ugly.

Since many editors supports syntax hilighting, many keywords shouldn't
be a problem.

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Date: 30 Dec 95 01:32:36 GMT
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Subject: Re: stop adding keywords to C++
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