[ ArgumentList ] vs. @( ArgumentList )

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-06 22:53, Walter Bright wrote:

> C++11 has had problems adding new keywords, as about every identifier
> somewhere has been used by someone's C++ source code, and they don't
> want to break existing code. So C++11 winds up with awful things like
> "decltype".

Just create a new attribute, call it "builtin" or something similar, 
which takes attributes as arguments, i.e.

@builtin(shared) int a;
@builtin(property) int b;

I'm not suggesting that we should change the existing @shared and 
@property, I just used them as an example.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg