Why do some attributes start with '@' while others done't?

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 23:25:01 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>  Although I'll be honest, breaking code is never fun, and 
> making people scour their code to fix something that worked 
> before is just an annoyance. On the other hand I'm almost 
> tempted to suggest a tool that would update changes to source 
> code when some of these things happen, dealing with most of 
> these types of problems.

Yeah. Somebody should write something like that.

Waaaait. Hang on. *I* wrote something like that. The problem is 
that nobody wants to make breaking changes even though dfix 
exists.

https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix