The Wrong Stuff

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-10-25 10:32:45 -0400, Bruno Medeiros 
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> said:

> On 26/09/2010 14:26, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> Unfortunately, one attribute with the @ syntax in D -- and I'd say the
>> flagship one as it was the first and most discussed -- is not a pure
>> annotation as it has a noticeable effect on semantics. I'm talking about
>> @property which, if it ever get implemented, changes your function so it
>> simulates a field. In Herb's terms, @property is clearly a keyword in
>> disguise.
> 
> You don't want attributes to affect semantics? That's odd, it seems to 
> me the most useful scenarios for @attributes is actually to affect 
> semantics, and they're somewhat limited otherwise.
> I mean, what exactly do you mean by "effect on semantics" ?

What I meant is that @property actually *changes* the semantics: 
calling the function becomes a different thing and the function lose 
its regular semantics. Other attributes only *restrict* existing 
semantics, they don't change the existing semantics beyond making 
illegal some things which are normally legal.

-- 
Michel Fortin
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