Newbie comments about D

kris foo at bar.com
Thu Aug 17 16:06:55 PDT 2006


Chad J wrote:
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> Also I'd suggest using 'scope' instead of 'local', as suggested before. 
> Scope is already a reserved keyword (Kristian look it up in the spec 
> under "Statements", it's quite handy).  It also just so happens that the 
> meaning of scope in this context and it's current context is very 
> similar.  So no need to rename identifiers that already use the word 
> (because there are none) AND it makes sense, yay.

Aye. This seems like a no-brainer? Not sure what technical concerns 
there might be that are currently stopping this from happening, but it 
would surely be appropriate to change the usage/keyword before 1.0?



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