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> Nit: Adding a keyword is not a breaking change, removing them is.

Langages generally try to add contextual / soft keywords these days but otherwise it’s absolutely a breaking change: any variable named the same will trigger a parse error. That is why languages try to either not add keywords, or find ways to make them opt-in somehow.




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