The great inapplicable attribute debate

[grauzone]

BCS wrote:
> Hello Stewart,
> 
>> Perhaps what complicates matters further is that D has three ways of
>> specifying attributes:
>>
>> (i) as part of the declaration itself
> 
> I more or less only use this.
> 
>> (ii) in a block delimited by { }
> 
> If I remembered that this one even exists, I might use it.
> 
>> (iii) with a colon to apply to everything that follows until the end
>> of
>> the scope
> 
> I'd be just tickled if this one were just dropped.
> 
> Just my $0.02 because that might make things less complex.
> 
> 

I use all three all the time. It's a nice mini feature of D. No reason 
to remove it.

And if you want to remove complexity, start with the bigger chunks of 
the D language.