@gc attribute for bypassign @nogc

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 01:07:27 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> @nogc conflates "doesn't allocate memory from the GC heap 
> because I don't want my application to use the GC at all" with 
> "doesn't cause GC collection pauses".
>
> The latter can have a @assumenogc annotation that works -- you 
> call GC.disable and GC.enable as appropriate. The former can't.

For whatever reason, I like the idea of annotations behaving like 
enums. So instead of @gc or @assumenogc, you could have something 
like @nogc.false or @nogc.assume. You wouldn't add new 
annotations, just new behavior for existing annotations.