keyword as struct field

[Andrey Zherikov]

On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 11:08:55 UTC, partypooper wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to D.
>
> Title is self described, is it possible to use keyword as 
> struct field?
>
> Maybe it is XYproblem, so here I will describe a little what I 
> need.
> I'm parsing some json currently with 
> [mir-ion](https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-ion) 
> (better/simpler suggestions for only json de/serialization?), 
> that has "version" as one of it's keys, so I can't use that as 
> field in my struct. Maybe some annotation in mir library to 
> parse "version" into other struct field name, can't find though 
> (its docs pretty concise).

Unfortunately I'm not able to help you with mir-ion. But I see 
two questions here:

> keyword as struct field

I believe this is the case for the most languages - keyword is 
not allowed as a variable name.

> usage of `version` keyword as a variable name

IMO having `version` keyword in D is unexpected language design. 
No one will complain about keywords that are widely used in the 
industry (like `struct`, `int` etc). But `version`?! I hit this 
problem multiple times already and the only solution for me was 
to use `version_` instead.