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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