User Defined Attributes

[Walter Bright]

On 11/6/2012 12:39 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:> On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 
07:55:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 >> -snip-
 >
 > It doesn't look like it would be possible to schedule any runtime code using
 > this, meaning they're not usable for stuff like registering types for
 > serialization support, or doing runtime linking when attached to a function
 > pointer, etc.

Since D allows one to inquire and get a list of symbols, one can then iterate 
over them at compile time to determine which are serializable (or have some 
other specific attribute).