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That and the weird aversion to introducing new or useful keywords, or even extending the symbol set that doesn't even use full ASCII.
Word! The whole snafu with
co_
routines has been quite the laughable show. It would have been trivially sortable if C++ did something like what PHP did, using a symbol to absolutely disambiguate what is a variable and what is not. That way eg.:await
is a keyword,$await
is a variable (perhaps a functor).To make it even better,
$
is already unused in C++!