User defined attributes use

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:59:10PM +0200, Artur Skawina wrote:
> On 09/16/13 22:38, Namespace wrote:
> >> [1] Obviously, not a practical short term option for the existing
> >>     D2 language.  That's probably clear from the context, and the
> >>     question was meant to be rhetorical -- but it could actually be
> >>     done and would make sense; it's just not a change that would
> >>     make enough of a difference on its own; the cost would be to
> >>     high.
> > 
> > Why to high? Too much compiler magic or dmd internal dependences?
> 
> Too much (language) change for too little gain; there are many, many
> much more important things that need to be fixed. Being able to have
> several user-defined kinds of arrays is a nice-to-have feature, but
> not one that determines whether the language is usable or not.
[...]

Hmm. I find D arrays just fine the way they are, actually. (In fact, I
rather *liked* the way D arrays worked as compared with, say, C/C++.)
What's wrong with them?


T

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