User Defined Annotations

[Andrew Wiley]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2011-03-11 04:30, Andrew Wiley wrote:
>>
>> This is a topic that seems to come up every so often (well, I bring it
>> up every so often, but I haven't really heard negative remarks about
>> it), and I was wondering what it would take to move forward with
>> getting user defined annotations into the language, and whether it
>> would be feasible for D2. Would the next step be to make a full
>> proposal?
>
> For this to be useful that language would probably need better reflection
> capabilities, either compile time or runtime.
>

As I see it, the proposal should probably include how this should look
in compile time reflection. As far as I know, runtime reflection has
even less of a plan than user defined annotations, and the two should
probably be proposed separately.