digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 15587] New: Enable use of D keywords as identifiers when
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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15587 Issue ID: 15587 Summary: Enable use of D keywords as identifiers when interfacing to C/C++ Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: bugzilla digitalmars.com Consider: extern (C) int* with(); where delegate is a C function name. This, of course, fails because 'with' is a D keyword. A solution is: extern (C) int* with_(); and have the C/C++ name mangler remove any trailing _ from identifiers. The prefix version, _with, has problems because it would be impossible to have a C identifier named '_traits' or '_gshared'. --
Jan 20 2016