Why do some language-defined attributes have @ and some not?

Wed Oct 22 22:29:24 PDT 2014

On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 02:22:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 00:59:26 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
> via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>
> LOL. I understand the sentiment, but it's a waste of time.

Jonathan,

I agree It's impossible to debate such thing with Walter / Andrej 
right now, but I don't think It's a waste of time: every explicit 
and accountable opinion about that is a little stone to weigh in 
the balance.

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/Paolo