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[Bengt Richter]

On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:41:55 GMT, "Anna" <revanna at mn.rr.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:37:27 +0000, Bengt Richter wrote:
>
>
>> BTW, is there anything written on what the BDFL may have in mind for
>> ':=' and '?' and '@' etc for? I'm sure he wouldn't want to squander them
>> on something trivial, but I wonder if there's some indication. Similarly
>> for words like "on", "when", "whenever", "before", "after", "initially",
>> "finally", etc, etc.
>
>I don't know about the rest of them, but as you may know, "finally" is
>being used. It's part of some "try" statements... as a clean-up to
>finalize anything necessary after any exceptions are dealt with in the try
>clause. It runs whether the try had any exceptions or not... 
>
Oops, tricked myself with pairings ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter