The future of UDAs.

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-29 12:44, foobar wrote:

> What's wrong with attaching the annotation to the module declaration?
> i.e.
> @no_circular_ctors module foobar;
>
> Ideally, I'd like to have the reverse default - require an explicit
> import _inside_ the static ctor when a dependency actually exists. Seems
> to me that in the vast majority of cases this is the actual preferred
> choice by users and for the tiny (if any) percent that depend on the
> current behavior - they'll just get an easy to fix compile-error - e.g.
> symbol foo.bar is missing, solvable by adding the relevant import.
> Of course, such a change should be properly announced and documented per
> the other thread about the development process of D.

Having the imports inside the static constructor sounds like a good idea.

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/Jacob Carlborg