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Reserved words are not enforced by the compiler #1587

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mbrubeck opened this issue Jan 21, 2012 · 1 comment
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Reserved words are not enforced by the compiler #1587

mbrubeck opened this issue Jan 21, 2012 · 1 comment
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A-frontend Area: Compiler frontend (errors, parsing and HIR) E-easy Call for participation: Easy difficulty. Experience needed to fix: Not much. Good first issue.

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The reference manual lists a small set of reserved words, but the compiler does not prevent them from being used as identifiers. Ideally it should fail with a syntax error, so that these words can be added as keywords in future versions without breaking any previously-working code.
j-clark pushed a commit to j-clark/rust that referenced this issue Jan 24, 2012
Issue rust-lang#1587: added reserved words to bad_expr_word_table.
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brson commented Jan 29, 2012

They are in the bad words table now.

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