Conflicting UDA
Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 6 07:01:44 PST 2016
On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 13:36:32 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
> I came across an issue with UDAs and was wondering if there
> really is no way or if I just missed something...
>
> Basically, my library has an @ignore UDA, which conflicts with
> vibe.d's vibe.data.serialization.
>
> If both mine and vibe's module are imported, DMD will fail with
> a very non-descriptive error message, seen below... The obvious
> solution would be to prefix my UDAs, but then I suppose every
> library writer would have to abide by this convention, which in
> practice won't happen, and would bring us back to the C-style
> redundant symbol names all over. It's unpleasant to have to
> disambiguate even when not necessary... I suppose I could also
> do @mylibattr("ignore") instead, but this is also hideous and
> overly verbose...
>
> I tried @mylib.ignore, which would not be too bad, if necessary
> only to disambiguate, but it seems like the parser doesn't
> understand it.
`@(mylib.ignore)` should work. You could open an enhancement
request to enable the paren-less syntax.
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