List of reserved words

[monarch_dodra]

On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 17:57:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:46:03 Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 10/11/2012 10:13 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> > (arguably no one should really be using hash_t or equals_t 
>> > at this
>> 
>> point, but
>> 
>> > I don't know if they're ever going to actually go away).
>> 
>> I've been assuming that they were relatively newer aliases. Is 
>> it
>> recommended to use size_t and bool instead?
>
> They're old. equals_t was done because D1 uses (used?) int for 
> opEquals
> instead of bool. I don't know if there was ever a good reason 
> for hash_t to
> exist. I don't believe that TDPL uses either, and I believe 
> that they've been
> mostly removed from druntime and Phobos (if they haven't been 
> entirely removed
> yet, they will be, aside from the aliases themselves).
>
> So, I would definitely recommend not using equals_t or hash_t, 
> but while some
> of us are definitely looking to get rid of them entirely, I 
> suspect that
> they'll be around semi-permanently just to preserve backwards 
> compatibility.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

In C, *technically*, anything ending in _t is reserved for future
usage, but this is not enforced.

Does D also reserve those names? Shouldn't it?