Alvaro Herrera wrote:
What about

FOR EACH var IN array_expr LOOP ...

I think this requires reserving EACH, which could cause a regression for
working code.  Maybe there's a way to make it work?

Code that quotes all of its identifiers, such as with:

  FOR EACH "var" IN "array_expr" LOOP ...

... would also gain a significant amount of future-proofing since then the language can add keywords at will, without there being conflicts with user-defined identifiers.

Similarly, quoting identifiers also carries present-day advantages as then one can name identifiers whatever is most suitably descriptive for them without worrying whether the language has a pre-defined meaning for the used words.

The quoting also has the nice bonus of making them case-sensitive.

-- Darren Duncan

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