null references redux + Looney Tunes

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sun Oct 4 11:26:34 PDT 2009


Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> language_fan wrote:
>> I admitted that later. Some of the keywords have a strong 
>> justification behind them. Others feel irritatingly unnecessary.
> 
> I would rather have many different specialized keywords than a few 
> keywords with many different meanings. Its *much* easier to remember a 
> large set of simple words than a small set of complex words.

Many of the keywords come from each basic type having its own keyword. 
Sure, it could be done like C does with "unsigned long", etc., but those 
were always hard to grep for.

Also, the complex and imaginary types will be removed at some point and 
replaced with a library type; there goes 6 keywords.



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