DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 17:22:02 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 21:41:37 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> Yes, please. Too few of the attributes have inverse attributes.
>>
>> Being able to stick your defaults up at the top of your module 
>> and then overriding them only when needed would be very nice 
>> and make the code a lot more tidy.
>
> I actually think this will make code harder to read. e.g.:
>
> @nogc:
>
> void foo()
> {
>    ...
> }
>
> void bar() @gc
> {
>    ...
> }
>
> @gc
> {
>    void baz() @nogc
>    {
>       ...
>    }
> }
>
> @gc:
>
> void quxx() @nogc
> {
>    ...
> }
>
> Ewww... nasty stuff.

My point was opposite attributes complicate the code hugely.