The Wrong Stuff

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 25 September 2010 14:25:47 Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger <jeberger at free.fr> wrote:
> > Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >> void main()
> >> {
> >> 
> >>     int property = 7;
> >> 
> >> }
> >> 
> >> is because property is not a keyword.
> >> 
> > 	I believe that the point Simen and Michel are trying to make is
> > 
> > that although "property" is not a keyword, "@property" is.
> > 
> > 		Jerome
> 
> Eggzactly.

That could be the case - I'd have to look at the grammar or parser to be sure - 
but that would be a poor way to do it if you ever intended to have user-defined 
attributes. Normally, @ would be in the grammar as a separate symbol indicating 
that the symbol  immediately followed was an identifier which was an attribute. 
It's quite possible, however, that @property is currently treated as a single 
symbol which is a keyword. I doubt that it will stay that way in the long term 
though, if it is the case.

- Jonathan M Davis