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changes.71 No. 391: fixed in 7.1?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Jul 27 07:37:36 1990

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 90 07:37:19 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-zephyr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU


Is this fixed?

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 17:36:53 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: 6.4R zwgc: `default' is read-only variable


Although zwgc isn't supposed to have read-only variables, it complains
of a syntax error if you try to assign to "default" in a set
statement.

Marc and I had a look at the lexer; "default" is a keyword (which is
out of place in the set statement context).

The solution *may* be to let some keywords be treated as variable
names, depending on context; this will require thought.

(Meanwhile, $default can still be side-effected by the functions that
modify arguments in addition to returning values.  Yuch bletch barf,
etc.)

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