Parameterized Keywords

[Patience via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 16:29:27 UTC, NX wrote:
> On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 05:56:54 UTC, Patience wrote:
>> Just curious if anyone can see the use for them?
>
> I believe 'new' keyword can take advantage of this quite good.
> For example you can pass memory usage strategy like so:
> MyClass mc = new[stream] MyClass();
> MyClass mc2 = new[static] MyClass();
>
> Deja-vu? Yes the idea comes from OpenGL. Also it might come in 
> handy for other stuff:
> MyClass mc3 = new[no_internal_pointers] MyClass();
> MyClass mc4 = new[no_compacting] MyClass();


Yeah, Maybe... new seems more like a keyword hack though. Things 
like if and loop are more natural as keywords(I guess since they 
generally have precise meanings in hardware/assembly). If the 
language already has new as a keyword though, it does seem like a 
good way to modify its behavior.