On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 11:39:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Conceptually, what Timon is talking about doing here is to add
an attribute to symbols declared within a static foreach where
that attribute indicates that the symbol is temporary (or at
least scoped to a particular iteration of the loop). So, saying
that it's "local" as __local would makes perfect sense. It's
local to that iteration of the loop.
And there may very well be other syntaxes which would be
better, but trying to overload the meaning of static even
further by using it in this context would risk code breakage
and would be _very_ confusing for most people.
You are right, using "static" would be confusing I guess. I'm
just against starting to use __keywords reserved to the compiler
that maybe shouldn't be. I know we already have __gshared,
though. Just what is the criteria to prepend the double
underscore to a keyword? Why now just use an @attribute instead?
@gshared and @ctlocal would fit better in the D style, IMO.
Rgds,
Dechcaudron
