Examples Wanted: Usages of "body" as a Symbol Name

Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 5 03:11:36 PDT 2016


Am 05.10.2016 um 05:04 schrieb ketmar:
> On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 02:11:14 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> I'm currently writing up a DIP to propose removing `body` as a keyword
>> to allow it to be used for variable names, functions, etc. I'm looking
>> for examples and contexts where `body` would normally be used as a
>> variable, function name, alias, etc. This is what I have come up with
>> off the top of my head:
>>
>> - In web programming where "body" is a required tag in any valid HTML
>> document. Ex:
>> - It is a name commonly used for XML tags and/or attributes
>> - Physics simulations as well in astronomical contexts ("planetary
>> bodyies", etc.)
>> - Video games, such as referring to the player character's body
>
> i think you covered most of the cases. as for me, it is more than
> enough. as for my cases, physics engines suffers most: it is *so*
> natural to use "body" field/variable there... and so annoying to always
> add ugly "_" suffix.

+1 to physics, but I also hit it frequently when writing 
compilers/parsers (function, loop bodies etc.) and other programming 
language related libraries (scripting interfaces/wrappers).


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