<yawn> The 'spelling' of keywords has probably eaten more programming-language-committee bandwidth than any other topic. But it really is only worth discussing at the *start* of the design of a language, where one puts principles in place (such as 'abbreviations only shorten and never remove vowels' [so they can be looked up in dictionaries by non-native speakers] or 'there are no reserved keywords' [so the language can be extended easily], or 'we are following the Java-Algol-C-BASIC-PL/I precedent').
For ES, the choice of keywords should probably follow the 'gut-feeling' of the original designer ... that way, the design has the best chance of remaining coherent. ANSI REXX (X3.274-1996) managed to avoid this particular distraction. The only time that that committee came close to blows was over the discussion on how to indent the code in the standard. (There is a lot of code in the standard, because the language is defined as a non-circular implementation of itself, based on a very small set of primitives.) :-) bit.ly/mfc Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
