accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

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On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 10:22:13 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> Indeed, Walter has some deep reasoning ENTIRELY based on 
> personal experience. Unfortunately it totally lacks theoretical 
> backing and shows a complete disregard for how usability 
> evaluation is done.
>
> Other popular languages, who have users that do not complain 
> about language syntax, are obviously wrong because they eschew 
> Walter's personal deep reasoned experience. These users must be 
> delusional and clueless for being happy with a syntax that is 
> obviously flawed for not providing redundant noise that 
> improves usability!
>
> While D, who have few users of which a fair share keep 
> complaining about the syntax, is beyond critique with an ever 
> expanding feature set and an increasing pile of reserved words 
> that prevent library authors from implementing the most common 
> standard on this planet.
>
> Here is the crux: nobody forces people who don't want to use 
> "body" as an identifier to use it, but that is not a good 
> argument for preventing everybody else from using it as an 
> identifier!
>
> D is a practically impractical language until it provides:
>
> 1. feature freeze
>
> 2. semantic specification
>
> 3. clean slate syntax upgrade
>
> D is a hobby language and is loosing more talent than it should 
> for not following a reasonable trajectory.
>
> 16 years in the making, still no stable release.

In the Mythical Man Month, Brooks advises for a single person 
responsible for architecture, or a dynamic duo (this is exactly 
what we are with Walter and Andrei).
This role was rediscovered as "product owner" in Agile settings.
Strong leadership and saying "no" more often that people would 
like is a constant among good projects.

I also made D proposals back in the days and they were @crap 
proposals (literally). You, personally, want syntax changes AND 
feature freeze.

Nobody would use a language whose leaders have said yes to the 
ideas of the every abusive internet users out there.