DIP 1003: remove `body` as a keyword

Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 15 13:19:30 PST 2016


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

I saw your PR but I don't really agree that it's a good solution. 
If you have to preface the symbol with # then you might as well 
just use a trailing underscore, like "body_".


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