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Oct 30, 2014 at 19:30
It's interesting to note that 'Smalltalk' is a reserved word in Smalltalk. I don't know of any other languages where this is true.

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Aug 10, 2025 at 14:34
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Playing with Claude and my new programming language has made me add features that it wants. I think they're reasonable. `for method in methods` -- custom syntax error explaining that `method` is a reserved word `echo 'println("hello world")' | garden` -- eval snippets from stdin
Aug 29, 2024 at 15:54
One interesting design choice in Emacs that I haven't seen in other editors: reserved shortcuts. An Emacs extension shouldn't use F5 through F12, or Ctrl-c LETTER. This lets users configure their own shortcuts. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Key-Bindings.html Does it exist elsewhere? I miss it in VS Code, where e.g. all the Fn keys are already assigned.
Key Bindings (GNU Emacs Manual)
Key Bindings (GNU Emacs Manual)
Aug 29, 2024 at 15:53
One interesting design choice in Emacs that I haven't seen in other editors: reserved shortcuts. An Emacs extension shouldn't use F5 through F12, or Ctrl-c LETTER. This lets users configure their own shortcuts. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Key-Bindings.html Does it exist elsewhere?
Key Bindings (GNU Emacs Manual)
Key Bindings (GNU Emacs Manual)