Allows the use of part of the language keywords?

ketmar via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 28 06:35:59 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 13:26:26 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 08:35:06 +0000, ketmar wrote:
>> i have a perfect solution to this: don't write such code!
>
> It would reflect poorly on the compiler if it failed to compile 
> something simply because you added a few comments. Especially 
> since each C-style comment is likely its own token. A 
> not-absurd usecase is a person condensing several functions 
> into one, which might involve separately commenting out several 
> function bodies.

it has nothing to do with compiler: parser skips comments when 
peeking tokens. the only thing affected is simplistic syntax 
highlighter that can't do proper lookup.


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