User Defined Attributes

[Don Clugston]

On 06/11/12 17:59, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 06/11/2012 17:46, Walter Bright a écrit :
>> On 11/6/2012 8:27 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> OK, I may break all the happiness of that news but . . .
>>>
>>> Tuple in D is notoriously known to be a badly designed feature. Basing
>>> more
>>> stuff on that just because we have them is short sighted and will only
>>> result in
>>> D's tuples being broken forever, several tuples implementations for
>>> more user
>>> confusion, or future major breakage.
>>
>> The only real trouble with tuples is that functions can't return them.
>>
>
> If it is the only problem, we have a pandemic spread of hallucinogen
> trance amongs D users.
>
>>
>>> We still don't have any scheme for a stable D, feature testing or
>>> whatever,
>>
>> Are you aware of the test suite and the auto-tester?
>>
>
> Yes, I'm also aware I hit compiler bugs on a daily basis, that my
> codebase is full of workaround on some of them.
>
>>
>>> Let's not talk these awesome static code analysis tools, java would
>>> become jealous.
>>
>> I have no idea what your point is.
>
> My point is that we have no tooling. Project exists, but they all ends
> up dead at some point or ends up not caring about compatibility that
> much (I'm aware of at least 3 serious D like projects that dropped dmd
> compatibility after spending quite a lot of time on it).
>
> The situation is really bad in that regard (many stuff are
> implementation defined, or even not defined at all because the
> implementation is known to be buggy), and adding surprise, half
> specified features are really not helping.
>
> If you have no idea what my point is, I'm probably wasting my time
> working on D.

If you mean, we should be working on getting the existing stuff working 
before we think about adding more stuff, I agree 100%.
I would say we're about three years away from it being sensible to work 
on annotations.
It's reasonable to draft a preliminary proposal (A roadmap, what a novel 
concept!). But I think it would be a big mistake to do much work on it.