Contextualizing keywords

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sun Aug 2 21:24:01 PDT 2009


Oliver Hoog wrote:
> Robert Fraser schrieb:
>> Chad J wrote:
>>> This makes things more difficult for syntax highlighters.  A number of
>>> them will just not work correctly because they don't actually parse the
>>> code.
>>> That's all I've got.
>>
>> Ehhh.... How often will you actually use the identifiers? The point 
>> isn't to make them free for use, it's more to reduce the number of 
>> people bitching about how many keywords there are.
> 
> I guess they would still keep complaining since the number of available 
> keywords to be remembered doesn't decrease.

There are a million words in the English language, so it's not likely 
that we'll run short of identifier space in the conceivable future :-)

The real problem is remembering the keywords.



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