Proposal: user defined attributes

F i L witte2008 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 08:55:15 PDT 2012


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> like printing money is for a government: very tempting, with 
> apparently good short-term benefits, but with devastating 
> cumulative effects.

RON PAUL 2012!!!

sorry, I couldn't help myself.


> Also, as I mentioned, the availability of the easy escape hatch 
> of adding a language feature thwarts creativity. Nobody will 
> care to think about and come with idioms that use the language 
> to do great things, if they know a language feature could be 
> always added that makes things "nicer".

You can be creative with a sledge hammer, or you can be creative 
with a jack hammer. D is already a bulldozer, but that doesn't 
mean it shouldn't become a wreaking ball.

;-)




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