Growing a Language (applicable to @attribute design)

[renoX]

On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at 00:54:07 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
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> Guy makes the argument that users need to be able to extend the 
> vocabulary of a language and have those new words look like 
> built-in ones. We have that today, of course, with the ability 
> of defining new types. There is no special syntax that says 
> "this is a user-defined type, not a keyword."

That's not strictly true: type inference works better for 
built-in types than for user-defined types, with "auto x = 1;" x 
is an int, how do I have the same type of syntax for MyInt?
AFAIK I can't, that's why I have mixed feelings towards type 
inference..

BR,
renoX