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> I'm sure there's a reason not to Language designers try to avoid adding new keywords if at all possible, especially ones that are short and common. Doing so
by lolinder 3y ago
> I'm sure there's a reason not to
Language designers try to avoid adding new keywords if at all possible, especially ones that are short and common. Doing so requires either breaking thousands of projects and APIs or adding a bunch of complexity to the grammar and syntax highlighting tooling (so threw is only a keyword in some contexts but not others).