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"Constexpr" is possibly the most hideous keyword in any programming language. My eyes vomit a little each time I read it.

They could have just used "pure" like in D, but this is C++, so that would be too sane and obvious.

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Introducing a new keyword means that all existing code that uses the new keyword as an identifier will break. That's why the `constexpr` keyword is deliberately weird.

It's also why they reuse keywords like `using`.

They could just use the reserved keyword naming like the C committee does.

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