I would not have predicted this coming from an IDE developer, so this is quite interesting.
Doing this with the keywords that were added in 1.2, 1.4, and 5 (assert, enum, etc) would right some historical wrongs (but you know my opinions about over-rotating towards fixing mistakes of the past.). And then there’s `goto`... > On Nov 28, 2022, at 2:56 PM, Tagir Valeev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! > > Recent discussion about contextual keywords emerged an opposite desire for > me. As we already have many contextual keywords, why not expand this to old > fullfledged keywords to return some names to the identifier namespace. I can > think of 'import' and 'package' which are meaningful as a keywords only at > top-level of Java file. Allowing variables with such names could be desired > in some programs and should not break much. At least, I occasionally want to > create variables with such names. What do you think? Ok, it's just a crazy > idea. > > With best regards, > Tagir Valeev
