[Dlang-internal] How about `and` and `or` like in Python?

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 at 20:34:19 UTC, Murilo wrote:

>
> Alright. That makes sense. But what about making it capitalized 
> as And, Or and Not, that will not conflict with keywords.

This has the same problem. You're introducing new keywords that 
will break any code using those words as identifiers.

What you're proposing has consequences. Aside from the potential 
for breakage, it adds complexity to the language. Opinions about 
improved readability and nicer aesthetics simply aren't strong 
enough to justify such a change (what gives your opinions more 
weight over those who disagree with you?).

Consider that when one person wanted to *remove* the keyword 
`body` as used in function contracts and replace it with another 
existing keyword, `do`, he wrote a DIP for it:

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1003.md

And that's just to take something away from the language. You 
want to add something so that we'll have two ways of doing the 
same thing.

So a suggestion in the forums is not going to be the way to get 
this feature added. You'd need to write a DIP presenting a strong 
justification for the added complexity and the potential code 
breakage. And given the nature of the feature, I'd say you'd be 
fighting an uphill battle (meaning, I don't think there is a 
strong enough case to be made).