Re: strange table index "end"

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, David Given wrote:

> Algol-68, of course; one of its transcription modes effectively
> distinguishes keywords from identifiers by font.

The decision whether END (or PROC or NOT) is a keyword is completely left 
to the lexical scanner. On modern machines you'd use upper case for 
keywords (and operators), but all the 'stropping conventions' are decided 
by the lexer.

Algol-68 has plenty of other 'interesting' features (look at formatted I/O 
:-)), but this is not one of them

Gé