DMD 0.163 release
    Walter Bright 
    newshound at digitalmars.com
       
    Thu Jul 20 16:04:26 PDT 2006
    
    
  
James Dunne wrote:
> What's so bad about context dependent keywords?
Then the lexer cannot tokenize the source without doing a parse. This 
negatively impacts tools that need to do so like Ddoc.
Furthermore, it is confusing if one also has a typedef named 'as'. 
Having keywords be distinct, and always distinct, from identifiers means 
you can look at code and see what's an identifier and what's a keyword 
without confusion.
    
    
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