Kagamin wrote:
Don Wrote:
To answer Don's point, there is nothing saying that the compiler can't
read attributes and change its behavior. Of course, those would have to
be builtin attributes.
Yes, but then they're just keywords, with an @ in front. You'd just be
kidding yourself if you think you've reduced the keyword count.
The problem with keywords is they're global. Why do you think there is module
std.string, but there isn't core.stdc.wchar? It's because string is not a
keyword, while wchar is. And annotations are also identifiers (though
predefined, like Object) rather than keywords.
No, that's only one of the problems with keywords. Prefixing all new
keywords with __ solves the same problem, and it's no more ugly than
prefixing with @. But it doesn't solve the other keyword problems.
