Standard way to supply hints to branches

[Walter Bright]

On 8/24/2024 9:47 AM, Manu wrote:
> C++ is way ahead on this... they added attributes to the language years back, 
> and they defined [[likely]] and [[unlikely]] post-fix on control statements. 
> It's really convenient, it reads well, and it's easy to retrofit without 
> disturbing the code.
> That's the de-facto now, and we should follow it.

It's unattractive.

I provided two alternate means to accomplish the same thing elsewhere in this 
thread.

https://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Standard_way_to_supply_hints_to_branches_375697.html#N375717