DIP1000: Scoped Pointers (Discussion)

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/15/2016 7:48 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
> Oh god, the attribute explosion is getting worse.
>
> I think at this point the proper way to use attribute-based D features is
> to write your code without them, then write a tool that will add all the
> attributes to your source code that it can while not breaking anything.
> Like now it's sensible to write a method:
>
> public final void foo() scope inout @nogc nothrow @safe pure {}
>
> I think the solution is to turn every function into a no-args template,
> but then you can't use virtual methods.


We've made a lot of progress with inferring attributes, and I have some ideas to 
do that even more.