Impossible to use C keywords for function names. about rock

[nddrylliog]

Allowing them would require us to either 1) make a global change, e.g. add a '_' prefix everywhere, or 2) 'escape' only those reserved words, but that would be inconsistent behavior.

Are you fine with just disallowing them, as I did for #4?

[solson]

If you are already checking for all the C99 names in ooc, it wouldn't take much to just escape them instead of preventing their use. It's a step towards making ooc not C-specific

[nddrylliog]

Yes, but we are checking them at the parsing stage. What about calls to these functions? We'd have to check again at writing time for both FunctionDecl and FunctionCalls. And the name from C will be different from the one used in ooc, without the use of extern nor unmangled. I think it may be less clear than just disallowing them.
I'd love to have the others' opinion about this.

[solson]

I don't think ooc should disallow names because of a limitation of C. I'd also like to hear other opinions

[nddrylliog]

Closing for now, as nobody else has expressed interest in the problem. It seems non-critical for now. A nice addon maybe but maybe not worth the complexity..

[solson]

Fair enough.