Type Qualifiers and Wild Cards

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Nov 8 15:57:17 PST 2011


Walter:

> The whole "too many keywords" issue strikes me as strange. English has over a 
> million words in it. Who cares if a language uses 80 or 100 of them? What 
> difference can it possibly make? How can an extra 20 words pollute the million 
> word namespace (and not including any non-word identifiers (like inout))?

I agree. This is also why I have suggested "auto_ref" instead of "auto ref", that I think is a bit confusing.

On the other handpaw, D2 has done a bit of mess with some of its tags name choice, it has "@safe" and "pure", but this choice looks arbitrary, why it isn't "safe" and "@pure"?

Bye,
bearophile


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