Annotations, was Re: Custom attributes C#

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> Makes me think that maybe e.g. 'unittest', 'deprecated' and pragma should
> have been annotations instead of keywords. Annotations feel a much more
> extensible facility than a fixed set of keywords. I'm not really sure what

That's exactly how it's done in .NET:

ObsoleteAttribute:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.obsoleteattribute.aspx

TestFixtureAttribute and TestAttribute in NUnit:
http://nunit.org/index.php?p=attributes&r=2.4.3


 > benefits the C# syntax has over @java @annotations, but D (or at least
 > tools) could really have a use for annotations in general. The language
 > should not dictate what 3rd party tools can and cannot do.

They're pretty much the same thing.


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