On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:05 PM Fred Hebert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would personally not go for ‘catch’ since its two current uses are for 
> exception handling whereas here it’s not the case at all.

I agree.

We have handled the addition of new keywords in the past by having an
option to disable them (keeping the new keywords as atoms). That we
will allow the compilation of old code that uses the keyword as an
atom. (We did that when we introduced try/catch.)

/Björn

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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