Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Dec 14 13:28:54 PST 2012


On Friday, December 14, 2012 09:34:50 PM Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 12/14/2012 08:42 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 2012-12-14 01:19, Walter Bright wrote:
> >> It was the D community that selected the @(attribute) syntax, and the
> >> overall design was based on extensive public discussion threads here
> >> about it.
> > 
> > And you still implemented the [attribute] syntax first.
> 
> It is my understanding that the public discussion deciding in favour of
> @(attribute) was started after [attribute] had already been implemented.

Yes. But I believe that pretty much every other discussion on it prior to it 
actually being implemented discussed using parens and not brackets.

- Jonathan M Davis


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