Custom attributes (again)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-04-06 12:12, Walter Bright wrote:

> I don't see the need for creating a new kind of symbol.

If you create a new symbol, i.e. "Foo" then it would obey the normal 
look up rules.


> This is a runtime system.

Says who? It doesn't need to be in D.

> I don't see that it is cleaner - there's no particular reason why a new
> symbol type needs to be introduced.

For attributes with a single value this syntax sugar can be allowed (and 
is in Java):

@serialize("Foo") int x;

I think that is clean.


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/Jacob Carlborg