DMD 0.163 release
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Wed Jul 19 17:14:53 PDT 2006
Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Nice update!
>
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> 1) didn't want to add new keywords, especially ones like 'as' as I use
>> that as a variable name
>>
>
> But would that require adding them as keywords? I mean, since the "as"
> (or whichever) appears in a specific and separate context, just as the
> "exit", "success" and "failure" of the scope statement, which are not
> keywords?
Context dependent keywords are generally considered a bad idea. The
scope words can never be confused with any identifiers, so I think
that's not quite the same thing.
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