Re: gnubol: STODGY vs GNUVEAU

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

RKRayhawk@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Concerning alternate (mis-)spellings like
> 
> <<
>  ln PERFORM PREFORM
> >>

I think that REPLACE is a better way to do this, or maybe syntax aware
editors. 

How hard would it be? You can easily turn off keywords in the lexer. The
lexer finds generic 'name' token and you look it up with gperf. This
then indexes into a table with flags for when certain keywords are
keywords. The compiler options control the word the flags are masked
against.

We could put in options that allow the installer to 'fix' certain
compiler options, as IBM does. But should we pander to control freaks. I
don't think so myself.

Tim Josling



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