On Saturday, 2 November 2013 at 20:45:28 UTC, TheFlyingFiddle
wrote:
I'm basically wondering why the __traits keyword looks so
horrible.
I think it looks beautiful and wished all the keywords used the
leading underscores.
The reason is that the __keywords are reserved, so they don't
conflict with user words. __traits was added somewhat late into
the language, so using a reserved word for it meant less broken
code. Now you can still call your own variables traits - I'd love
it if all keywords were this way so we could, in theory at least,
use the anywhere.
Anyway, std.traits wraps __traits reasonably well and doesn't
have the underscores.
