accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 28 06:59:49 PST 2015


On 1/28/15 4:11 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 10:50:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> This change didn't break a single line in the libraries or the test
>> suite.
>
> Yes, but it didn't also fix anything, only introduced more ways to do
> the same thing - without any plans for some consistent model. It is
> simply moving things around for the sake of marking some bugzilla report
> as closed - there is no consistent rationale for applying @ to
> attributes available.
>
> Just the fact that change can't possibly break anything doesn't mean it
> is can't have negative value. It _may_ have some well-though rationale
> behind I am failing to spot but that is not presented to users in any way.

Change has been reverted. -- Andrei


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