[Issue 785] Make 'cent' and 'ucent' syntactically valid pending implementation

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=785



--- Comment #35 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> 2012-11-21 15:43:33 PST ---
> That's exactly why it makes no sense that D1 reserves the words at all. So it
> certainly isn't a D2-only issue.  Still, maybe it isn't worth reopening it
> since D1 is about to be abandoned.

Yes, it's generally not to reserve identifiers which will never be used, but
other languages have done it. For instance, Java reserves goto and const and
never uses them. So, it's really not that big a deal if D1 reserves words that
it never uses.

D1 is merely a fork/branch of D from a point where it was reasonably stable and
Walter was about to introduce some major, breaking changes, and it was decided
that it would be kinder to the existing D users at the time to branch for
continued development. It was never really meant to stick around long term. And
it's about to be officially unsupported. So, it's not all that surprising if it
has some rough edges anyway. And all that this means is that there are two
words that no one using D1 can use - cent and ucent. That's far from a disaster
and really not worth our time to worry about IMHO. Also note that it's one of
D1's biggest users - Don - who closed the bug. If Don doesn't think that it
needs to be fixed for D1, then I think that it's safe to say that we don't need
to worry about it.

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