Beman Dawes wrote:
> Changing the subject, note that n2105 is very much alive. See
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2105.html.

I note that one of the objections is that three of the proposed keywords
don't use underscores to separate words. I suspect the reason is that
they are keywords and not identifiers - the only current keywords with
underscores are the casts (which were deliberately made somewhat
unwieldy) and wchar_t (where it isn't used as a word separator). Compare
that to sizeof, typedef, typeid, typename and perhaps namespace where no
separator is used. The other cases brought for comparison are not
actually keywords but identifiers.

I think people consider keywords in a different class to identifiers,
and therefore no one felt an inconsistency. Of course, whether to
perpetuate that distinction is a different question.

Yechezkel Mett

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