User Defined Attributes

[Walter Bright]

On 11/6/2012 10:19 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> No, what's the difference between this:
>
> @every_body_writes_their_names_like_this int a;
>
> And
>
> ["every_body_writes_their_names_like_this"] int a;
>
> None.
>

You're right, there is none. That's why using type names as attributes is more 
scalable and robust.

I understand your desire to have attributes be implicitly declared, but I think 
that implicit declarations have historically been seductive, and much later were 
realized to be a mistake. This pattern has happened over and over :-)

For example:

    @seperate

and sometime later:

    @separate

How long will it be before that bug is noticed?