UDA for module declaration.

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Wed Sep 17 09:37:00 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 12:30:26 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 03:43 AM, Orvid King wrote:
>>
>>
>> Why all this talk?
>> I've created pull request for dmd, which allows UDA for modules
>> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3947) and 
>> Walter
>> says that I should open topic in n.g. and justify the 
>> usefulness of this
>> enhancement.
>
> As far as I am concerned, this does not need any justification, 
> but leaving it out would. A module declaration is as much a 
> declaration as any other declaration and declarations can be 
> annotated with UDAs.

I agree. "Language consistency" sounds like good justification 
here on its own, the less special cases we have, the better it is 
for the learning curve.


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