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

Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 5 05:02:21 PDT 2016


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

Physics libraries absolutely.

https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dchip/blob/55f43e5f0cf67c8bc190711b69eb16230fa6188e/src/dchip/cpBody.d#L184
https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dbox/blob/6f81fe065abec1e7def44fc777c5d8e9da936104/examples/demo/tests/bodytypes.d#L103

And in various C / C++ libraries. It's rather annoying that body 
is taken, it's a fairly rarely used keyword in D but often used 
in other languages.


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