piotrek wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:04:25 +0100, Don wrote:
piotrek wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:37:12 +0800, KennyTM~ wrote:
On Mar 24, 11 19:00, sclytrack wrote:
== Quote from piotrek ([email protected])'s article
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:17:32 +0100, Alvaro wrote:
D already has a long list of keywords, reserved words can't be used
as identifiers, which can be annoying. "body" in particular is a
common noun that programmers would gladly use as a variable name in
physics simulation, astronomy, mechanics, games, health, etc. I
think "body" can be removed from D with no harm, and with the
benefit of allowing the name as identifier.
yes, please
body is also a html tag
Cheers
Piotrek
Copied the following line from the Vala (=mostly reference counted
language) web page.
"It is possible to use a reserved keyword as identifier name by
prefixing it with the @ character. This character is not part of the
name. For example, you can name a method foreach by writing @foreach,
even though this is a reserved Vala keyword."
My body is hungry and starving.
How is this better than _body or body_?
I think "@" is a little bit nicer, but it doesn't change the situation
at all . body (if possible) shouldn't be a keyword. Can anyone from the
steering group state his opinion? :)
What's the steering group?
I think you belong there. :) Along with Walter, Andrei, Brad and Sean.
Of course support of David, Steven, Lars and Jonathan and the
whole community is invaluable. :)
Walter makes all the language decisions. The rest of us have just been
able to convince him on multiple occasions (but I think that even Andrei
has not achieved 50% convince rate). Hint #1: if you want to convince
Walter, produce some real world use cases. Hint #2: you've got more
chance if you make a patch, but ONLY if you've satisfied hint 1.
I raised this exact topic before, with the title "my body is ugly" <g>.
It's a very silly keyword. It's just a comment, really /*body*/.
What stops Walter from removing it? If it was me, the next dmd
release would have one keyword less ;) (Forget for a while that
I'm not familiar with the dmd code)
Priorities. If you spend any time on 'body', that's time taken away from
fixing important bugs. The potential benefit is *tiny*. There are 1000
bugs that are more important.
