Ordering of UDAs

Emmanuelle VuLXn6DBW at PPtUm7TvV6nsw.com
Mon Apr 22 21:15:07 UTC 2019


On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 19:32:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 19:02:57 UTC, Emmanuelle wrote:
>> Hello! Does `__traits(getAttributes, ...)` return UDAs in the 
>> order they were declared in the source code, or is it 
>> unspecified?
>
> I think that is defined:
>
> https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#uda
>
> "If there are multiple UDAs in scope for a declaration, they 
> are concatenated: "
>
> and the example shows it in order.
>
> It also says
>
> "Whether the attributes are values or types is up to the user, 
> and whether later attributes accumulate or override earlier 
> ones is also up to how the user interprets them. "
>
> Which implies it must be in order so you can make that 
> determination.
>
> It isn't as specific as I'd like, but it sure sounds like it 
> must be in order to me.

Alright, that makes enough sense to me. Thank you!


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