DIP6: Attributes

[Leandro Lucarella]

Ary Borenszweig, el  3 de agosto a las 11:14 me escribiste:
> >annotation syntax in C# and Java looks like an ugly hack to me. Purely a 
> >subjective opinion, of course, but it seems really out of place in a C-family 
> >language.
> 
> Attributes has many, many other uses. Appart from serialization, you could 
> specify how a field is stored in a database. How a method maps to an http 
> request (post, get, which parameters to bind to the request, etc.). Whether a 
> method should do security checks before executing. Whether a method should be 
> run as a test, and what's the expected exception to be thrown. [insert your 
> usage here]

It's easy to support some sort of primitive-explicit AOP[1] too. It's very
used in Python. For example I've implemented the synchronized "attribute"
in Python using decorators (annotations).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming

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