Martijn van Steenbergen wrote:
Niklas Broberg wrote:
21 actually. case, class, data, default, deriving, do, else, if,
import, in, infix, infixl, infixr, instance, let, module, newtype, of,
then, type, where. There's also three special words that can still be
used as identifiers, so aren't reserved: as, qualified, hiding.
Since you can define operators in Haskell, would it make sense to
include '=', '--', ':', ',' etc. as "reserved names" since those can't
be used as operator names?
Makes sense to me...
It's merely more difficult to catelogue this information for a
half-dozen different languages. Looking up the reserved word list is
usually only a Google search away.
Somebody suggested to me that the best metric for "how difficult" a
language is to learn is "the number of orthogonal concepts you need to
learn". Of course, measuring THAT is going to be no picknick!
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