• Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Aug 07 2011
• Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Aug 07 2011
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alex_R=F8nne_Petersen?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> Aug 08 2011
• Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Aug 08 2011
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Aug 08 2011

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

So I wanted to make myself a template called "macro", but it turns out
it's a keyword:

template macro()
{
}

test.d(7): TemplateIdentifier expected following template
test.d(7): Declaration expected, not 'macro'

Is there something planned with this keyword?

Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> writes:

On 07/08/2011 23:59, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
 So I wanted to make myself a template called "macro", but it turns out
 it's a keyword:

 template macro()
 {
 }

 test.d(7): TemplateIdentifier expected following template
 test.d(7): Declaration expected, not 'macro'

 Is there something planned with this keyword?


It was originally going to be used in D2 for AST macros, however it was 
found that string mixins (an already existing feature) were already as 
powerful as the proposed AST macros. As such, the keyword is reserved 
for future use, possibly in D3 once the details have been reconsidered.

There's a video lying around somewhere of Walter presenting what would 
have been macros somewhere if you're interested.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alex_R=F8nne_Petersen?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> writes:

On 08-08-2011 01:07, Robert Clipsham wrote:
 On 07/08/2011 23:59, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
 So I wanted to make myself a template called "macro", but it turns out
 it's a keyword:

 template macro()
 {
 }

 test.d(7): TemplateIdentifier expected following template
 test.d(7): Declaration expected, not 'macro'

 Is there something planned with this keyword?


 It was originally going to be used in D2 for AST macros, however it was
 found that string mixins (an already existing feature) were already as
 powerful as the proposed AST macros. As such, the keyword is reserved
 for future use, possibly in D3 once the details have been reconsidered.

 There's a video lying around somewhere of Walter presenting what would
 have been macros somewhere if you're interested.


Would you happen to have a link? My Google-fu seems to be weak today.

- Alex

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

I think he means the "The Future of D" videos found here:
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Videos

What I'm wondering about is whether something like this is still
planned though. I don't mind the keyword being taken that much.

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrej Mitrovic:

 What I'm wondering about is whether something like this is still
 planned though. I don't mind the keyword being taken that much.


Like "goto" keyword in Java :o)

Bye,
bearophile