Using attributes inside template instantiation

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 17:21:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>
> The term "attribute" is a bit confusing, especially since 
> "property" is
> also used in the language to refer to something completely 
> different. A
> better term is perhaps "annotation". The @foo is an annotation 
> on x, but
> its type is just int.

Agree whole-heartedly.  I usually introduce people to the idea by 
referring to them as annotations, which they understand quickly, 
then later tell them that it's called an attribute because of 
reasons no one knows.  I get funny looks, but at least they 
comprehend it.  I'm not so sure it's too late to get the 
terminology changed, though, and I sincerely hope it will.