On 05/17/2013 07:19 PM, bearophile wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
However, if it _never_ makes sense to declare a variable
beginning with two underscores, I don't know why the compiler wouldn't
forbid
it other than the fact that it probably inserts such variables prior
to when
it would do the semantic analysis to check whether variables started with
underscores, in which case, catching the user's variables that start
with two
underscores while permitting the compiler's variables could get tricky.
I think to answer this issue we need someone that knows more about the
DMD compiler (as Kenji Hara). I think that if we want to forbid those
variables in user code, then probably there is a way do to it.
Bye,
bearophile
It is trivial to catch them in the parser.
