DIP6: Attributes

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Tue Aug 4 02:41:57 PDT 2009


Don Wrote:

> > Annotations are useful in many ways, but without full reflection 
> > capabilities, they are restricted to things that can read them via 
> > source code, and so they are no better than comments.
> 
> This is a very, very important observation, and I think it belongs in 
> the DIP. It means that it probably doesn't make much sense to implement 
> annotations without also having an intention to implement full-blown 
> reflection.

The DIP is about the first step: to allow syntax.



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