[Mono-devel-list] Keyword "partial"?

[Sebastian Hoehn]

Hi,

this is perhaps a little bit off-topic, but I wrote a parser for C# and it complains about the following declaration:

bool partial = xyz;

This is due to the fact that partial is "half a keyword" which indicates partial type definitions. Why does the mono compiler accept this? Is it correct behavior to accept this (it is obvious that this cannot be a partial typedef, but why is this)?

Thanks for helping,

Sebastian