The east coast fintech folks are the reason we couldn’t have yield as a keyword. Too much of their code uses the variable name yield in the trading sense of the

The east coast fintech folks are the reason we couldn’t have yield as a keyword. Too much of their code uses the variable name yield in the trading sense of the word, and so we’re stuck with this instead. This is what someone on the standards committee told me on the cpp slack a few years ago, at least.