• "John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> Mar 27 2005
• Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> Apr 05 2005

"John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:

Is it not possible to use deprecated keywords such as "instance" as 
identifiers? I get the following errors:

    semicolon expected, not 'instance'
    TemplateIdentifier expected following instance
    identifier expected following '.', not 'instance'

And I'm not compiling with the /d option. If a reserved word becomes 
deprecated, surely it's no longer reserved? 

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

John C wrote:
 Is it not possible to use deprecated keywords such as "instance" as 
 identifiers? I get the following errors:
 
     semicolon expected, not 'instance'
     TemplateIdentifier expected following instance
     identifier expected following '.', not 'instance'
 
 And I'm not compiling with the /d option. If a reserved word becomes 
 deprecated, surely it's no longer reserved? 


How would the compiler know, in the general case, whether you intended 
to use the deprecated keyword as itself or as an identifier?

Even when the syntax using the keyword is not valid if it's used as an 
identifier, to allow it would create a parsing nightmare.

The keyword has to be still reserved.  Unreserving it would mean 
removing it from the language completely, not just deprecating it.

Stewart.

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