remove keywords

[Denton Cockburn]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:55:45 +0000, mandel wrote:

> A proposal in a nutshell:
> 
> - removal of the keywords "unittest, "version" and similar.
> 
> - replaced by global compile time variables.
> 
> - "dmd -<name>=<value>" to set them. Variables not found result in
> compiler warnings
> 
> - "dmd -list version*" or similar to list all global variable names with
> prefix "version"
> 
> -> less keywords, more powerfull control (use in boolean expressions),
> more native syntax, easier to understand
> 
> Ideas? Problems? Objections?
> 
> btw.:
> bool enableXYZ;
> 
> if(enableXFZ) import foo.Bar;
> 
> ..might be hairy to implement?

seems like a rather big change.
Do you really have a big problem with the current method? or you just 
think this is better?

I'd rather forgo a big change if the current method isn't painful (it's 
not).