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I understand why they try to reuse keywords and symbols, and why they intentionally pick really ugly keywords when they add new ones. I can’t say they’re wrong, but I still find it annoying.


They could just go the C-way and introduce new keywords in reserved namespace (`_Static_assert`) and provide opt-in header to make them less ugly (`assert.h` and `static_assert` macro).




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