Martijn van Steenbergen wrote:
Niklas Broberg wrote:
21 actually. case, class, data, default, deriving, do, else, if, import, in, infix, infixl, infixr, instance, let, module, newtype, of, then, type, where. There's also three special words that can still be used as identifiers, so aren't reserved: as, qualified, hiding.
Since you can define operators in Haskell, would it make sense to include '=', '--', ':', ',' etc. as "reserved names" since those can't be used as operator names?
Makes sense to me... It's merely more difficult to catelogue this information for a half-dozen different languages. Looking up the reserved word list is usually only a Google search away. Somebody suggested to me that the best metric for "how difficult" a language is to learn is "the number of orthogonal concepts you need to learn". Of course, measuring THAT is going to be no picknick!