FAQ for newbies who see pure @safe nothrow @nogc

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 10:43:37 UTC, matovitch wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 10:38:46 UTC, matovitch wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 10:34:37 UTC, matovitch wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 22:32:55 UTC, Jonathan 
>>> Marler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why don't we make all the function attributes keywords?
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> As a newbie, I would have asked the reversed question :
>>>
>>> Why don't we make all the function attributes attributes?
>>
>> To be clear, what are the avantages of keywords vs attributes 
>> ? Why should the most used function attributes be keywords ?
>
> "In theory, the increased consistency is welcome, but the 
> increased visual
> noise definitely is not.  And if we leave in pure and nothrow 
> without @,
> then we're going to have code out there doing both, which adds 
> to the
> confusion, and if we deprecate pure and nothrow without @, then 
> we'll be
> forced to change pretty much every D program in existence." JM 
> Davis
>
> Ok !

I'm not sure I understand your question.

Why don't we make all the function attributes attributes?

Is this what you mean? "Why don't we require an '@' symbol before 
all function attributes?"