std.d.lexer: pre-voting review / discussion

[Piotr Szturmaj]

On 12.09.2013 01:22, Kapps wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 19:57:28 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
>> On 11.09.2013 20:49, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 9/11/2013 8:01 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>>> std.d.lexer is standard module for lexing D code, written by Brian
>>>> Schott
>>>
>>> Thank you, Brian! This is important work.
>>>
>>> Not a thorough review, just some notes from reading the doc file:
>>>
>>> 1. I don't like the _ suffix for keywords. Just call it kwimport or
>>> something like that.
>>>
>>> 8. 'default_' Again with the awful practice of appending _.
>>
>> Delphi designers realized this problem years ago and they came up with
>> a solution:
>> http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE4/en/Fundamental_Syntactic_Elements#Extended_Identifiers
>>
>>
>> Basically, Delphi allows escaping reserved identifiers with a '&'. I
>> wonder how D solves that problem when interfacing to COM classes if
>> they have for example a function named "scope".
>
> C# allows this as well. For example, you can have:
> void MyVoid(string @int) { ... }
> The name is actually int for purposes of reflection and the like, the @
> just tells the compiler that it's not a keyword.

Yes, and this is important to actually have the real name without a '_' 
or any other prefix or suffix. Is there an enhancement proposal for this 
in the bugzilla?