On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 20:45:56 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 19:21:52 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
It also:
1. mucks with the usability of syntax highlighting, which is
often based merely on tokens.
2. makes it potentially much more difficult to add features to
the language, which is often done by finding new uses for the
same keywords
3. is just plain confusing to the person learning the language
4. makes correctly diagnosing syntactic errors harder
There are a million words in the english language. Having a
handful of reserved words should not be a burden.
Could we at least make body a contextual keyword? It's a
commonly used word in many different areas.
YEAH! PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE! i did that, and it never broke
anything for years. as for syntax highlighters -- it's not too
hard to check if `body` is followed by `{`. but getting our
precious `body` back will be invaluable!
