DIP 1007 - keywords as identifiers with an escape symbol - feedback

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 22 December 2016 at 10:35:23 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 December 2016 at 10:11:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Thursday, 22 December 2016 at 04:11:54 UTC, Chris Wright 
>> wrote:
>>> While we're talking about this, this proposal breaks any 
>>> string mixin that mixes in an identifier detected with 
>>> reflection.
>>
>> RIP DIP 1007. It was too simple to be true.
>
> I see something to do to continue the DIP
>
> [...]
>
> Which means that you can use As many # as you want to escape a 
> keyword.
> Mixins cannot introspect themselves so basically 'pound pound' 
> will always work.
> And this is still a simple thing that can be done in the lexer.

no...it's dead, obviously whatever is the amount of #, they'll be 
removed when the token is patched for the first time. This just 
doesn't work with mixins. End of story.