First Draft: Static Single Assignment
Jonathan M Davis
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Wed Nov 19 08:29:17 UTC 2025
On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 2:26:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Peter C via dip.development wrote:
> It's highly unlikely that 'init' or 'fixed' (which is now my new
> preference) .. or whatever it ends up being called, is currently
> being used in existing code as an identifier preceding the
> initialization of a variable.
>
> It would be contextual keyword - the context being -> variable
> declaration and assignment.
D does not have contextual keywords, and Walter has rejected the idea when
it has been proposed in the past. In D, if an identifier is a keyword, it's
a keyword everywhere.
- Jonathan M Davis
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