FAQ for newbies who see pure @safe nothrow @nogc

[matovitch via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 19:02:22 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 18:38:33 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> Does it really matter ? Please put your first post in there 
>> and be done with it. These proposal are not gonna happen 
>> anyway (the ROI is simply not there).
>
> Post is up.  I agree with you that the ROI is not there, 
> however, if someone doesn't understand why then it's good to 
> help them understand.  It produces better developers and helps 
> bring the D community together to have a common understanding. 
> In an ideal world with infinite time we could answer everyone's 
> questions with great detail and walk them through all their 
> concerns and ideas.  However, since time is a finite resource, 
> I think having a wiki we can point people to is a great 
> compromise.  I saw this suggestion in the thread by multiple 
> people and I think it would help to address it in the wiki.
>
> This attitude of thinking that addressing people's concerns 
> doesn't matter is a bit harsh and hurts the language.  I've 
> seen that many upper developers share this attitude and it 
> pushes people away from wanting to contribute.

I like *your* attitude ;)

I am reading http://dlang.org/attribute.html and realizing how 
subtle this can be...indeed, the distinction of qualifier vs 
attributes is fuzzy in my head even, qualifiers are defined to be 
attributes in the spec...Attribute is a node of the grammar in 
fact so the def is really accurate but I think with more thinking 
one could think of something more consistent than it has @ 
because this is a keyword because the next question will be then 
why isn't this a keyword because that is a keyword...etc.

Write the FAQ a wiki can always be improved.