Examples Wanted: Usages of "body" as a Symbol Name
Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 5 11:41:02 PDT 2016
On 2016-10-05 19:14, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Agreed - I have exactly the same problem with "version", which is also
> really common for, well, to hold a version number of a component. Body
> is annoying too.
>
> But, can keywords actually sanely be removed from the language without
> breaking the world?
In Ruby most keywords are not reserved words. Example:
class Foo
def class
end
end
When the compiler sees the second "class" it already knows that this is
a method declaration because of the "def" keyword. Actually calling this
method requires a receiver:
class Foo
def class
end
def bar
class # this won't compile
self.class # this will work since the compiler knows that is has to
be a method call because of the dot
end
end
In Scala it's possible to wrap a keyword in backticks, this is necessary
to be able to call a Java method that uses a name that is a keyword in
Scala but not in Java:
// Java
class Foo
{
void def () {}
}
// Scala
val a = new Foo()
a.`def`()
--
/Jacob Carlborg
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