Feature Request: Keyword as identifier.

[Stewart Gordon]

icee wrote:
> In C# we can use a keyword as a identifier by prefixing @
> 
> Why?
> suppose we are using a extern C lib, the library exports a function as "int 
> version()",
> so we write:
>  extern(C) int version();
> this will obviously fail to compile, cos' version is a D keyword, (but not 
> the C keyword.)

"cos'"?

> so we have no methods except modify the C code and re-compile it.

See also my proposal for an alternative solution:

http://tinyurl.com/gsan2

Stewart.

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