Proposal: user defined attributes

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/20/12 4:36 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> We have the opportunity here to introduce in D the concept of aspect
> oriented programming. This is HUGE. If you are afraid of the addition of
> a functionnality to the language, don"t worry, you are not just adding a
> functionnality, but a whole new paradigm.

I dabbled into AOP quite a bit, but I'm not all that jazzed about it. 
It's been around for quite a while but it has little to show for it. At 
the present it's rather unstructured and lacks a strong corpus of useful 
idioms. I'd say - interesting, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

Andrei