[ ArgumentList ] vs. @( ArgumentList )

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 19:18:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> No hitting below the belt! Let the games begin!

I think that [] is sufficiently distinct from built-in 
attributes, unlike @(), but sadly, there's no nice way to parse 
it at statement scope. There are in fact a couple of ambiguous 
cases in the parser already; let's not introduce any more, lest 
we lose the ability to call D easy to parse.

@(foo) looks too similar to built-in attributes. And let's face 
it; these annotations are actually quite different (I too prefer 
the more accurate name, 'annotations') from built-in attributes, 
the former cannot replace the latter any time soon.

I want to hear what people think about [] at declaration scope 
and @[] at statement scope. Too complicated to remember?