Static overused? (was Re: Inner classes - More expressiveness needed)

[Matti Niemenmaa]

Henning Hasemann wrote:
>> As far as I can come up with, "out", "scope", and "void" have two
>> distinct meanings, and the rest have one.
> 
> 'import' has 2:  'import foo', 'import("foo")'
> 'mixin' has at least 2:  'mixin Foo!()', 'mixin("foo")'
> 'this' has at least 2: 'this() { }', 'this.foo'
> 'alias' has at least 2: 'alias myint int;', 'tempalte Templ(alias T){}'

Gregor grouped static's 7 meanings into 2. I did the same with 'import' and
'mixin' in the above. I'd say you're right about 'this' at least, and I never
understood template alias parameters so you're probably right about that one,
too. :-)

> (Which has it good sides too when it comes to backwards compatibility,
> but I feel it should be more important to choose expressive keywords
> then retaining backwards compatibility especially in the 2.x branch I
> think it would be a good idea to reconsider keyword choices as
> backwards compatibility is not an issue there.)

Agreed.

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