[ ArgumentList ] vs. @( ArgumentList )

[David Nadlinger]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 19:52:45 UTC, Manu wrote:
> I'd like to re-enforce the consideration that @attribute() 
> makes it looks
> like they affect the code generation somehow... they're really 
> just
> annotations.

Why would @ look like that to you? Actually, @ seems to yell 
»annotation« to me, probably because of my (limited) exposure 
to Python.

And don't forget that UDAs _do_ in practice have an effect on 
code generation, at least a lot more than @safe-ty attributes. 
Whether the mechanism by which they gain that effect is built 
into the compiler or implemented in a library doesn't matter to 
the user of a library.

David