"body" keyword is unnecessary

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Mar 27 22:23:55 PDT 2011


On 3/23/2011 3:17 PM, Alvaro wrote:
> D already has a long list of keywords, reserved words can't be used as
> identifiers, which can be annoying. "body" in particular is a common noun that
> programmers would gladly use as a variable name in physics simulation,
> astronomy, mechanics, games, health, etc. I think "body" can be removed from D
> with no harm, and with the benefit of allowing the name as identifier.

Body is not strictly necessary to parse it. But it makes for a nice "anchor" 
when the in and out clauses get long.

In any case, we are currently working on getting temp destruction to work 
correctly, and after that we'll work on fixing issues with const. I think these 
are the most important things we should be working on at the moment.


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