Custom attributes (again)

[Walter Bright]

On 4/6/2012 12:35 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> It actually can be a problem. In .NET land, there are many attributes across
> many projects (and even in the framework itself) with the same names. It turns
> out that regular namespace lookup rules alleviate this problem.


Perhaps a better scheme is:

    enum foo = 3;

    ...

    @attr(foo) int x;

That way, foo will follow all the usual rules.