Paging Walter Bright: Contextual Keywords

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On 11/07/2016 08:40 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> Why not make it a plain identifier ? We give identifier special
>> meaning in various places, like scope(exit).
> 
> If I am not mistaken we do not need body ay at all.

It is matter of how smooth deprecation phase is. Completely removal of
`body` is OK long-term but that would mean one have to wait several
years of deprecation phase before it can be used as identifier in user
code. Making it deprecated _and_ contextual results in immediate
availability.

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