custom attribute proposal (yeah, another one)

[Kapps]

On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 11:13:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 07/04/2012 05:29, Kapps a écrit :
>> I slightly prefer this function method over the struct method 
>> because:
>> 1) No need to generate a custom struct for everything. Plenty 
>> of things
>> are just a true or false, or a string. Saves a little bit of 
>> TypeInfo
>> generation.
>
> If the type isn't used at runtime, the compiler should be able 
> to remove that dead part of the code. If it doesn't, it is an 
> implementation issue, and shouldn't be solved by language 
> design decision.

This is not possible currently. The TypeInfo is required at 
runtime whether or not the type is used at compile-time, for 
reasons such as Object.factory.