On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 22:50:27 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 22:35:31 UTC, Martin Cejp wrote:
I really wonder whether the rule could be relaxed a little
bit.
o_O How?
Not being a keyword except in places where it is used as such.
Only if it's not a keyword at all, lest you complicate parsing.
You wouldn't want any other keyword (I dunno, int?) get a
special treatment now, would you?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for allowing to use "body" as an
identifier in user code, I just don't see any half-measures in
that regard :)
It's surprisingly easy to implement, see here:
https://github.com/schuetzm/dmd/commit/955be4ef9f26e92f7a0d5dedf86b64a03d903be8
It requires only a few trivial changes to the compiler, but I have
to admit that it makes the code uglier. In particular, it doesn't
scale; every keyword treated in this way requires additional
special handling.
I'm not sure whether I should make a PR from this...
