D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[An Pham]

>
> ### Dennis
> Dennis said he'd been working on that AA PR, but had nothing 
> else to report. He still had some other things to pursue, like 
> looking at pattern support for the deprecation (-d/-de/-dw) and 
> obsolete warning (-wo) switches, as well as the `standalone` 
> attribute or pragma for static constructors.
>

Please use "pragma" to be consistent with other static 
constructors. There are few reasons to do so
1. DMD does not have consistent way of defining system attribute 
which can cause conflict with user attribute (DMD system 
attribute should start with underscore character, "_")
2. If old DMD version can not handle new pragma identifier, it is 
because the list is hardcoded. Should have/add ignore pragma 
identifier list defined in sc.ini so that it can be updated at 
will without rebuild
3. DMD has attribute soup problem because it does not have negate 
setting. If top module has
"@nogc:" and later a function that supports garbage collect 
should just use its negate form "@!nogc"
4. DMD attribute should/must not use negate word form so @nogc -> 
@!gc ....

Cheers