User Defined Attributes
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Thu Nov 8 23:29:30 PST 2012
On 2012-11-08 19:03, Max Samukha wrote:
> The problem is where to draw the line. There is nothing to stop an idiot
> programmer from applying your attributes to a wrong target, so we'd
> better take care of that by introducing those target-restricting
> attributes specially treated by the compiler.
Sure, but we don't want to have a comment for every struct indented as
an attribute saying "this is an attribute". We do have "const", "pure",
"nothrow" and so on for a reason. We want the compiler to be able to
force/validate our intent and not have to write the intention in the
documentation.
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/Jacob Carlborg
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