DMD 0.163 release

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Thu Jul 20 16:04:26 PDT 2006


James Dunne wrote:
> What's so bad about context dependent keywords?

Then the lexer cannot tokenize the source without doing a parse. This 
negatively impacts tools that need to do so like Ddoc.

Furthermore, it is confusing if one also has a typedef named 'as'. 
Having keywords be distinct, and always distinct, from identifiers means 
you can look at code and see what's an identifier and what's a keyword 
without confusion.



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