Differentiate const flavors using CASE?

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:53:26 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>> Here's a random thought:
>> What about const vs CONST?
>> The upcase version obviously being the more const of the two.
>> The original proposal played with punctuation, and we've talked plenty 
>> about spelling, but we haven't talked about playing with case.  It would 
>> be an odd-ball among keywords, admittedly, but if you asked 100 people 
>> which of 'const' and 'CONST' was the most constant you'd probably get 
>> 100 votes for 'CONST'.  And he could become good friends with 
>> foreach_reverse, the other odd-ball keyword who is disparaged by the 
>> other kids because of his obesity and the big staple in his belly button.
> 
> LOL ... Now that *is* funny.

Yah :o). Speaking of foreach_reverse, probably it would be wise to lobby 
Walter to deprecate it in favor of foreach(reverse) (item ; collection) 
{ ... }. The keyword(extra) syntax is definitely becoming a D signature 
syntax.


Andrei