[ ArgumentList ] vs. @( ArgumentList )

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-07 10:22, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> It mainly came down to not wanting to add new keywords. By using @safe instead
> of safe, safe could still be used as a variable or function or whatnot. There
> was some discussion of which should have @ on them on which not (e.g. nothrow
> vs @nothrow was debated), but the decision was fairly arbitrary. If anything
> though, had we not cared about breaking code or whether D looked similar to
> other languages, we probably would have made _all_ attributes start with @
> (including stuff like @public). It would have been wonderfully consistent that
> way, but it wasn't ultimately deemed a good idea.

And then we would suddenly have Objective-C :(

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/Jacob Carlborg