Minimizing "reserved" words

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-10-31 23:25, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> IMHO, it's just plain error-prone to allow for any of the built-in
> properties to be overridden, and it should be disallowed in all cases. We
> need to be able to rely on stuff like .init of .sizeof being the built-in
> property, or you're just going to get bugs - especially in generic code.

That might be the case. But why are they built-in properties from the 
beginning. Compiler recognized free functions or __traits would not have 
this problem.

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/Jacob Carlborg