On Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 21:56:29 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 22.06.2017 23:51, MysticZach wrote:
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 21:41:55 UTC, MysticZach wrote:
The whole double parentheses is a bit ugly to me. Is there any problem with
out(return > 0)
instead of
out(r) (r > 0)

I'm sorry, I didn't read closely. I think that's just asking for trouble, wanting to use `return` as an identifier. Timon found a specific reason why, but in general contextual keywords are frowned upon for precisely this type of ambiguity in the meaning of the code.


(It's not a contextual keyword. A contextual keyword is an identifier that is reserved in some contexts but not others.)

I would argue that the above suggestion promotes `return` precisely that way. It's now an identifier in precisely that one context, but is reserved as a keyword in all other contexts. Not sure what to call it. But we're a little off topic, as we both agree that the above solution to the double parens isn't viable, right?

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