The Wrong Stuff

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Torarin wrote:
> 2010/9/25 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:
>> Part of the point of attributes was to make it so that they
>> weren't keywords and therefore didn't make the list of keywords any longer.
> 
> If they make the attribute list longer, what do you gain from making
> the keyword list shorter, other than @-ifying the keywords?

	Basically, all it does is defining a namespace for keywords. Since
you can't define identifiers with an @, then whenever Walter wants
to add a new keyword, he only has to pick one that start with @ to
make sure that he won't break anyone's code.

		Jerome
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