[ ArgumentList ] vs. @( ArgumentList )

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 19:47:57 UTC, Manu wrote:
> I actually quite liked Tristan's argument.
>
> [attr, attr2] feels more like what it is, an annotation. It 
> does nothing,
> has no effect on the declaration on its own.
> the @attr syntax looks like existing attributes, and with that 
> kinda comes
> the presumption that they actually DO something, affect the 
> code generated
> in some way.
> For that reason, I buy the argument that [attrs...] being 
> visually distinct
> makes more sense, more like what it is.
>
> Perhaps it should be termed 'annotation' rather than 
> 'attribute'?
>
>
> On 6 November 2012 21:38, ponce <spam at spam.org> wrote:
>
>> I like @(ArgumentList) better for stated reason: it looks like
>> existing @attributes.

If you want, you can take some history into consideration. This 
DIP is the reason for the @property/@safe syntax

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP6

Maybe not that specific page, but it comes from the big 
annotation discussions.