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

Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Oct 16 13:14:07 PDT 2016


On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:11:14 +0000, 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'm doing an SMTP server. I want to split a message into headers and body.


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