accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

[Foo via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 21:41:31 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 21:28:14 UTC, Foo wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 21:25:57 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 21:12:50 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 1/26/2015 12:45 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>>>>> Just because they are function attributes does not mean
>>>>> they were tokenized as "keywords".
>>>>
>>>> The lexer has no idea what a function attribute is or that 
>>>> now it should be looking for attributes and then it should 
>>>> not be.
>>>
>>> I feel like I keep repeating myself so I'm just going to 
>>> copy/paste.
>>>
>>>> If the grammar supported decorating a function with a list 
>>>> of id
>>> tokens (not just keywords), then you could implement a 
>>> variation
>>> on the c++ solution of allowing "override" and "final" after a
>>> function signature.
>>>
>>> The lexer would recognize these attributes as normal ID 
>>> tokens.
>>> The grammar could be amended to allow a function to be 
>>> decorated with keywords and generic id tokens.  Then the 
>>> meaning of those tokens would be handled by semantic analysis.
>>> So the result would be that the lexer would see "nogc" and 
>>> "safe" as normal id tokens (not keywords) which would be 
>>> consumed as function attributes by the grammar.  As far as I 
>>> can tell this results in the best of both worlds.  We can 
>>> omit the '@' character on function attributes like safe and 
>>> nogc but they don't have to be added as keywords.
>>
>> Right. That's was what I meant.
>> Same thing could be possible for body...
>
> Ya same thing applies to "body".  I'm surprised no one has 
> given a reason why it wasn't done this way.

Because you/we are community members and therefore "second-class 
citizens".
If we suggest or discuss something, it is not that important. But 
if a small reddit post is made, it matters more.
Look what happend to auto ref for non templates: community wants 
it but we don't get it.