On Monday, 7 November 2016 at 13:24:20 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 07.11.2016 12:38, Dicebot wrote:
On 11/07/2016 08:40 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
Why not make it a plain identifier ? We give identifier
special
meaning in various places, like scope(exit).
If I am not mistaken we do not need body ay at all.
It is matter of how smooth deprecation phase is. Completely
removal of
`body` is OK long-term but that would mean one have to wait
several
years of deprecation phase before it can be used as identifier
in user
code. Making it deprecated _and_ contextual results in
immediate
availability.
What's the new syntax for contracts if body is removed?
Currently https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/48
(https://github.com/MetaLang/DIPs/blob/8f3ac3a133cd1f9095dd992f38ae377f5987caa4/DIPs/DIP1003.md) proposes either use `function` keyword instead of `body` or simply omit it with two blocks following each other.
