DIP60: @nogc attribute

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:40:07PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/15/2014 1:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> >On 4/15/2014 1:19 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> >>On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 20:13:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>>On 4/15/2014 1:10 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >>>>Is automatic inference of @nogc anywhere within our reach right
> >>>>now?
> >>>
> >>>Yes, it's no harder than pure or nothrow inference is.
> >>
> >>I meant mostly for non-template code, where there is no inference.
> >
> >I had a PR for that, but nobody liked it.
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1877

I'm not sure I like the idea of overloading "auto" to mean *both*
"automatically infer return type" and "automatically infer attributes".

What about @auto or @default for attribute inference, and leave return
type inference as-is?


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