accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-01-26 20:50, Walter Bright wrote:

> It's good to have this discussion.
>
> Previously, it's all been advocacy and "break my code" by forcing a
> change from pure => @pure.
>
> Just a few days ago on slashdot, an anonymous D user wrote:
>
>    "A horrible mix of keywords and annotation syntax for function/method
>    attributes ('const', 'pure', and 'nothrow' are all keywords, but
>    '@property', and '@nogc' are annotations)"
>
> for why he won't use D anymore.
>
> Frankly, I think that is a great bikeshedding non-issue that distracts
> us from what is important. I hope that by doing this PR, we can actually
> decide that it isn't worth it, i.e. I'd be happy to get consensus and
> revert it.

How is this change going to help when there's still a bunch of 
attributes that can not be prefixed with '@', immutable, const, public 
and so on?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg