On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 19:02:02 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 18:41:02 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2016-10-05 19:14, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
Agreed - I have exactly the same problem with "version",
which is also
really common for, well, to hold a version number of a
component. Body
is annoying too.
But, can keywords actually sanely be removed from the
language without
breaking the world?
In Ruby most keywords are not reserved words. a.`def`()
D context free grammar allow fast highlighting. I understand
that people who write scripts think that it won't change
anything...but it's not the reality. D is a system programming
language, people who use D can deal with code base > 60 Kloc.
And we don't want to see such a change because you can't use
"body" in your student project.
Yes the fact that D is context free is a very nice benefit and I
can pretty much guarantee that D maintainers will never allow
changing the syntax to break this.
However, I believe a context-free grammar could support
"contextual keywords". Note that the word "contextual" here is a
bit misleading. For someone who really wanted to remove body as
a keyword, I encourage them to try to modify the syntax and see
if they can maintain the "context-free" grammar and without over
complicating the syntax. I'm not sure if it's possible, but it
might be. Anyone up for the challenge?
