debug a reserved keyword (even for enums?)
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Apr 12 19:55:13 UTC 2026
What you're suggesting is that `debug` be a context sensitive keyword.
D has some context sensitive keywords, such as:
```
extern (C) ...
pragma(msg,...)
__traits(isReg,...)
scope (exit)
```
But these are tightly constrained cases where they happen. If `debug` were
contest sensitive, you can have problematic sequences like:
```
debug (foo(3));
```
Is `debug` a function call or a debug statement? It's ambiguous.
It's better to keep the ambiguous syntaxes to a minimum. Don't want to be like
C/C++ where a correct parse requires a symbol table.
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