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10730 :: Why is "end" a reserved keyword?

• angus (orginal) [2023-12-04T08:39:03+01:00] view original

  Is it a vestige of an early hesitation about syntax? Or is it used some place I'm not aware of?

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2023-12-04T08:40:53+01:00] view original

  In the past, Nim had syntax skin support, so end was reserved for a possible end-style syntax skin, although it got never implemented. The only skin that was ever made was braces (using {} instead of indentation), but it was eventually removed from the compiler.

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• angus (orginal) [2023-12-04T08:48:33+01:00] view original

  In that case, if that skin project is abandoned, I suggest "end" to be removed from the keyword list, since it's a very convenient identifier.

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-12-04T09:42:04+01:00] view original

  But what if we bring skin support back? :-)

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• 4n0n4me (orginal) [2023-12-04T11:26:18+01:00] view original

  I have heard that code filters also uses end.

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2023-12-04T11:27:53+01:00] view original

  Right, I forgot about them, my bad, so end isn't unused.

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• angus (orginal) [2023-12-04T12:32:18+01:00] view original

  I don't think the little, limited language that stdtmpl can parse can be considered "Nim". While that language uses end, Nim still doesn't.

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• Niminem (orginal) [2023-12-04T16:51:57+01:00] view original

  That would be pretty funny to have the ability to use curly braces or indentation for writing Nim. One less argument available to not choose the language lol

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