Newbie comments about D

[Kristian]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:06:55 +0300, kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:

> Chad J wrote:
> [snip]
>> 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?


Thanks Chad, the scope statement is one very nice feature indeed! :)

I think I could also live with the "scope" word (even if there is a bit  
nicer ring in "local" ;) ).

As I mentioned my other post, changes from "auto" to "local"/"scope" could  
be done automatically (well, I think at least almost all of them anyway),  
if you need to update old code.