DIP64: Attribute Cleanup

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 21 23:18:41 PDT 2014


On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:49:33 +0000
Mason McGill via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> I was referring to the `Property` and `PropertyIdentifier`
> entities in the D grammar (http://dlang.org/attribute.html),
> which are special cases of attributes. "New-style" attributes,
> like "property", "safe", and "nogc", are `PropertyIdentifier`s
> and need to be written with the "@" character. Older,
> non-property attributes, like "pure" and "nothrow", do not.
>
> Sorry if this wasn't clear in the former post.

That _is_ kind of an ugly use of the word property.

- Jonathan M Davis


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