About @ and UDA

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:53:05 +0000, Andrea Fontana wrote:

> My 2 cents. If I remember correctly, "@" prefix in @safe, @trusted,
> @system, etc was added just to avoid keywords pollution, right?
> 
> Now UDA uses the same prefix: if some new keywords/properties/attributes
> will be added to D, the same problem will come back again... Is it a
> crazy idea to deprecate @
> for UDAs in favor of something else like #? In this way @xxx will be a
> language attribute and #xxx will be a user defined attribute. No
> pollution, no clashes.
> 
> Maybe it's not too late to do this change. I think it will be not a big
> effort to replace uda syntax in existing projects (a deprecation warning
> will help).

or make "safe" and company "context keywords". along with "body" (oh, how 
i hate the unabilily to declare "body" member!")
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