[Lazarus] Should the "at" word be painted as reserved word ?

[Martin]

On 15/02/2012 10:51, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 15.02.2012 11:36, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:25:34AM +0800, Paul Ishenin wrote:
>>>> According to my "Sprachgef??hl" this cannot be anything other than a
>>>> reserved word. Its not an identifier, its not an operator, it can only
>>>> be a reserved word.
>>>
>>> At is not a reserved word. It works only in the context of a raise
>>> statement.
>>
>> How is this different from "until" ?
>
> Maybe because the "at" was introduced rather late by Borland and then 
> they didn't want to break compatibility with code that uses "at" as a 
> variable or something. "until" is in the language for a long time 
> (Delphi language, not Pascal language). Same with words like "helper", 
> "read", "write", "default", "requires", "contains". They were all 
> introduced afterwards (though there seem to be exceptions, so it's not 
> easy to decide whether something is a global keyword or a context 
> sensitive one).

Correct me, but

var
   until: boolean;

does not compile, while

var
   at: boolean;


does compile