custom attribute proposal (yeah, another one)

[deadalnix]

Le 07/04/2012 13:32, Kapps a écrit :
> On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 11:13:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> Le 07/04/2012 05:29, Kapps a écrit :
>>> I slightly prefer this function method over the struct method because:
>>> 1) No need to generate a custom struct for everything. Plenty of things
>>> are just a true or false, or a string. Saves a little bit of TypeInfo
>>> generation.
>>
>> If the type isn't used at runtime, the compiler should be able to
>> remove that dead part of the code. If it doesn't, it is an
>> implementation issue, and shouldn't be solved by language design
>> decision.
>
> This is not possible currently. The TypeInfo is required at runtime
> whether or not the type is used at compile-time, for reasons such as
> Object.factory.

Object.factory is limited to classes IIRC.