[OT] @grammar

[norm]

On Monday, 30 March 2020 at 23:39:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:24:01 AM MDT Steven Schveighoffer 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I always look at @safe as the word "safe", not "at-safe". But 
>> I see a lot of people writing stuff like:
>>
>> "You should put an @safe tag on it"
>>
>> which reads horribly to me:
>>
>> "You should put an safe tag on it"
>>
>> Am I the only one who cringes to read this? I bite my tongue 
>> and don't respond normally, because I'm sure that people read 
>> it the other way.
>
> Actually, I'm surprised that anyone would effectively ignore 
> the @. Personally, I definitely consider it to be at-safe and 
> not safe, since it's @safe, not safe. And that's how I would 
> refer to it in any verbal conversation.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I interpret the '@' as referring to "attribute", i.e. 
attribute-safe as opposed to at-safe. Reading through this thread 
I see I'm in the minority :)

/Norm