DIP 1003: remove `body` as a keyword

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 18:44:42 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 15:31:40 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 December 2016 at 20:27:36 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 11 December 2016 at 11:33:40 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>>> DIP 1003 is faddish. It would really be better to have a 
>>>> system that would allow any keyword to be used as 
>>>> identifier. An escape system is the key.
>>>
>>> It would also guarantee that the DIP would not be accepted. 
>>> With this DIP I aimed
>>
>> Sorry in a previous post there's been a confusion from my 
>> part, I thought the author was "Cauterite".
>>
>>> for the smallest possible change that would alleviate the 
>>> problem of not being able to use `body` as a symbol name, 
>>> hoping that the smallness of the problem and ease of 
>>> implementation would make it much more likely to be accepted.
>>
>> I won't insist too much but to be clear, the escape solution 
>> is incredibly simple to implement (7 SLOC !). I've decided to 
>> go further in order to demonstrate it:
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6324
>
> Switch from # to @ and even the guys here are satisfied: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/fiwfcsqmjsndcjixipgz@forum.dlang.org

Irony I suppose ?

> Two birds - one stone (;

Exactly...If # is used to make function attributes (like in point 
4 of 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/lllbfrmrhsjafijloadg@forum.dlang.org) 
then #const like in PR 6324 doesn't work...anyway one of the idea 
is more concrete than the other. ;)