debug a reserved keyword (even for enums?)

[Timon Gehr]

On 4/12/26 01:27, Kapendev wrote:
>>
>> debug_, version_, align_, function_, immutable_... at what point do we 
>> acknowledge that the cure (universal keyword reservation) is worse 
>> than the disease (contextual parsing complexity)?
>>
>> Editions exist precisely to make breaking improvements like this 
>> possible without fragmenting the ecosystem.
>>
>> Let's do it.
> 
> Breaking things just to be able to use `align` or `debug` as a variable 
> or enum name is not worth it. The solution: find better names.

I don't understand the premise. Why would that break anything?

Jonathan's original point was that contextual keywords are 
_undesirable_, not that they are _breaking_.

I.e., the contention is with "improvement", not "breaking".