On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 3:02:54 PM UTC+11, Tony Kelman wrote: > > Is this possible right now? Say I want to have a type with field names > type, using, import, immutable, for, while, do, ... > > The parser doesn't seem to like this much, just wondering whether anyone > knows of any interesting workarounds. Since I actually really only need a > container for the use case I'm working on at the moment I can just use a > dict, but this made me curious. > > Unlikely to be allowed, http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/variables/#allowed-variable-names says "The only explicitly disallowed names for variables are the names of built-in statements" and although I can't find a reference, I understand the rules for fieldnames match those for variables.
Cheers Lex
