Allows the use of part of the language keywords?
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Sat Aug 27 13:45:56 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 19:21:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> It also:
>
> 1. mucks with the usability of syntax highlighting, which is
> often based merely on tokens.
> 2. makes it potentially much more difficult to add features to
> the language, which is often done by finding new uses for the
> same keywords
> 3. is just plain confusing to the person learning the language
> 4. makes correctly diagnosing syntactic errors harder
>
> There are a million words in the english language. Having a
> handful of reserved words should not be a burden.
Could we at least make body a contextual keyword? It's a commonly
used word in many different areas.
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