DIP64: Attribute Cleanup

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/20/2014 09:22 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP64
>
> Attributes in D have two problems:
> 1. There are too many of them and declarations are getting too verbose
> 2. New attributes use @ and the old ones do not.
>
> I've created a DIP to address these issues.

Why not make the built-in attributes proper symbols instead and use

alias Seq(T...)=T;
alias spiffy = Seq!(pure,nothrow,safe);

float mul(float a, float b) @spiffy{ }

?

This will also allow use cases such as passing attributes by alias.