User Defined Attributes

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-16 11:41, Walter Bright wrote:

>> Sure you _can_ but it would be quite stupid. With user defined types
>> there is at
>> least some context. With a plain string (or any built in type) it can
>> come from
>> any where and mean anything.
>>
>> The difference is, with a user defined type you know the meaning of the
>> attribute, with a built in type you do not, not in the same way at least.
>>
>
> The whole point of my example was no, you do not necessarily know the
> meaning of a user-defined type that is used as an attribute.

i don't know what to say anymore. I can only repeat what I've already 
said. This conversion has clearly gone into circles.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg