On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 09:53:49 UTC, MysticZach wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 08:03:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
* Is it a good idea to remove body's status as a reserved
keyword?
* If so, which option is best?
1) Make it contextual
2) Replace it with another keyword (`function` was suggested
in the DIP, `do` in this thread).
3) A three-stage process of removal: make it optional, then
deprecate it, then remove it completely (meaning, no keyword,
reserved or contextual, is required for the function body in a
contract).
Option 4) Keep `body`, but make it both contextual *and*
optional. It becomes usable as an identifier, and those who
think it's unnecessary are appeased. The downside is that
different programmers will include it or not, based on
arbitrary preferences.
The problem with this option is the IDEs. D syntax so far doesn't
require parsing to highlight, i.e you have a token and you know
what is it directly, and this without looking at the previous
tokens (which is basically what parsing does, detect token
patterns).
