DIP64: Attribute Cleanup

[Chris Cain via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 18:11:32 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 18:07:25 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
>> Too many attributes in D.
>> In C++ there is no pure, safe, trusted and others.
>>
>> And it's C++ that shows that almost all of D attributes are 
>> not necessary.
>>
>> Welcome to attribute hell !
>
> Of course. But pure/safe/trusted/others statically verify that 
> huge classes of errors cannot occur and make reasoning about 
> code much easier. You're correct that it's not necessary, but 
> they're certainly desirable in many ways.
>
> I'd willfully trade bug hell for "attribute hell".

(well, "trusted" doesn't statically verify anything, it just 
makes it so you can manually verify the safety of the function so 
it can be used in safe functions, but you know what I mean)