The next iteration of scope

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/1/15 11:45 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-04-01 22:26, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The problem with inferring attributes on non-template functions is the
>> source must be available to the compiler. That's obviously true for
>> templates, but not so true for non-templates, where only the signature
>> is available.
>
> In my experience with D, the source code for most the functions are
> available. Everyone is doing open source and no one bother with
> writing/generating .di files. Not implementing attribute inference for
> non-template functions just because the source code of _some_ functions
> might not be present is not a good reason. Why should the non-template
> functions that _have_ the source code available suffer?

Because large projects. -- Andrei