Should we have an Unimplemented Attribute?

KennyTM~ kennytm at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 22:27:28 PST 2011


On Feb 3, 11 06:59, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> We know what a Deprecated Attribute is for:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/attribute.html#deprecated.
>
> You can use a compiler switch to enable using these:
> -d
>      allow deprecated features
>
> But what about structs/classes/functions/etc which are partially
> implemented, but still unusable? Marking them with deprecated doesn't
> make sense, as this will likely confuse both the user and the library
> writers. Would it be overkill to introduce a new attribute?
>
> The idea came after I've spent some good time trying to get druntime's
> getMembers function to work in my code, only to find out from this NG
> that it's not properly implemented.
>
> Discuss?

How about @disable ?


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