On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 11:08:55 UTC, partypooper wrote:
Hello, I'm new to D.
Title is self described, is it possible to use keyword as
struct field?
Maybe it is XYproblem, so here I will describe a little what I
need.
I'm parsing some json currently with
[mir-ion](https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-ion)
(better/simpler suggestions for only json de/serialization?),
that has "version" as one of it's keys, so I can't use that as
field in my struct. Maybe some annotation in mir library to
parse "version" into other struct field name, can't find though
(its docs pretty concise).
Unfortunately I'm not able to help you with mir-ion. But I see
two questions here:
keyword as struct field
I believe this is the case for the most languages - keyword is
not allowed as a variable name.
usage of `version` keyword as a variable name
IMO having `version` keyword in D is unexpected language design.
No one will complain about keywords that are widely used in the
industry (like `struct`, `int` etc). But `version`?! I hit this
problem multiple times already and the only solution for me was
to use `version_` instead.
