Minimizing "reserved" words

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:45:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> In the latest release of DMD (2.072.0) TypeInfo.init has been 
> deprecate in favor of TypeInfo.initializer. That would not have 
> been needed if .init wasn't a built-in property but instead a 
> compiler recognized function.

at least for ".init" i can't see any reason for not replacing it 
with ".default". we can deprecate ".init", yet allow both for 
some time, and ".default" is just as logical as ".init", but it 
is using already reserved word. it is completely unambiguous, and 
easy to detect in highlighting engine by checking if we have dot 
before it.

at least this is way more logical than using `enum a = 42;` to 
declare a single constant instead of enumeration. ;-)