Position of unittest attributes

Stefan Frijters via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Mar 22 04:00:55 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 09:42:44 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 22/03/2015 10:29 p.m., Stefan Frijters wrote:
>> So I was trying to add some attributes to unittests in my 
>> code, but
>> apparently they are only allowed *before* the unittest 
>> keyword, which I
>> think makes it much harder to quickly see the unittests when 
>> scrolling
>> through the code:
>>
>> void foo() @safe pure nothrow @nogc { } // Ok - I normally use 
>> this
>> style, and Phobos does too, I think?
>> @safe pure nothrow @nogc void bar() { } // Ok
>>
>> @safe pure nothrow @nogc unittest { foo(); } // Ok
>> unittest @safe pure nothrow @nogc { bar(); } // Nope
>>
>> I looked through the D grammar and it does seem to disallow 
>> this, so
>> it's not a bug as such, but is there a particular reason to 
>> not allow it?
>
> Post attributes to e.g. functions are a relatively new standard 
> in D. It'll simply be nobody has brought it up as of yet.
>
> File it into the issue tracker.

Thank you.
While filing in the summary field in Bugzilla it actually showed 
me an issue already exists 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10925 , so I just bumped 
it a bit.


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