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hmfrh
1704 days ago
Introducing a new keyword means that all existing code that uses the new keyword as an identifier will break. That's why the `constexpr` keyword is deliberately weird.
It's also why they reuse keywords like `using`.
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kevin_thibedeau
1704 days ago
They could just use the reserved keyword naming like the C committee does.
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