April 24, 2009
12:19 a.m.
spir wrote:
I have noticed a rather strong and nearly systematic opposition to (new) keywords. Cannot really figure out why.
Every time a new keyword is added, it has the potential to break the code of someone who is using it as a variable name. Since we place a high value on not breaking existing code, we are naturally reluctant to add new keywords. We do sometimes, but there has to be an extremely good reason for it. -- Greg