On Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 02:35:57 UTC, ketmar wrote:
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 `{`.
You must keep track of the previous token, which is not usually
done in a scanner.
Once again, the D style says to add a "_" after the keyword. If
it's a problem with the reflection it's also easy to check if an
identifier ends with "_" and then to remove it.
The examples of contextual keywords given by W.Bright in a
previous message are totally different from the "body" case
because in `extern(C)`, "C" is an identifier that becomes a
keyword in the context, while what you propose is that a keyword
becomes an identifier out of the context.
