On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 09:57:41 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 09:53:49 UTC, MysticZach wrote:
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).
I don't feel like it's much of a problem:
1. I suspect a simple matching of the three tokens '}', 'body',
'{' would detect it most of the time.
2. Without that, remove `body` from your highlighter's list of
keywords. When used as a keyword, it's very conspicuous anyway.
Code won't lose much readability with just this one word unlit.
3. If `body` were optional, probably a lot of people wouldn't be
using it to begin with. I suspect that Jonathan and I are not
alone in thinking that it's not just useless, it's annoying.
Thus, only code that uses it would have this problem.
