On Monday, October 01, 2012 23:55:11 Tommi wrote: > On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 21:35:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > The question is whether it's worth adding such an attribute to > > the language, and clearly, most of us think that explicitly > > using enum suffices whereas Tommi wants such a function > > attribute. > > You'd get simpler syntax at the cost of just one lousy new > keyword. It's a once in a life time deal! Any takers?
Keywords are considered to be incredibly expensive. Being able to use a name starting with @ rather than a keyword does reduce the cost, but you're still going to have to drive a very hard bargain to talk Walter into adding anything like that to the language at this point. Adding much of _anything_ to the language is generally considered expensive. - Jonathan M Davis