Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
People working on computer languages generally avoid (and with good reason) adding new keywords.
True in general, but this is Transcript, which already has over 250 keywords (a fair number of which have changed in or since 2.0), so I didn't feel the same need to restrain myself :-)
But you're right - if it can be done by reusing existing keywords (or operators) that would be better.
Have you considered "and for" rather than "also"?
Yes, I did, but was worried that there would be ambiguities with existing usages of 'and' as an operator.
(e.g. repeat while x and y is valid today)
It's hard to tell when there's no published BNF or formal language description; if 'and for' can be parsed unambiguously, it would be better.
-- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net
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