In something like C++ you could create a scope like so:

{
	// Do something neat here
}

I was wondering about having or maybe even requiring a scope keyword, which might look like this:

scope
{
	// Do something neat here
}

This seems even more relevant in an indentation sensitive language like python:

scope:
	pass

Interested to hear any opinions, TIA.

  • anton
    3·
    9 months ago

    In that case managed languages like python and java combine that functionality with try blocks. This is generally called try with resources.
    C# has the using keyword that just uses local scope.

    The commonality between them is declaring which resource is managed, not just everything is a scope. Imagine you wanted to manage one resource and return another.