On 11/14/12 1:13 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/14/2012 2:53 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
If "std.mytypes.mystring" is a variable of the type "string" then the
fully
qualified name is lost if it's used as an attribute. Something like this:
I am having a REALLY hard time making my point here.
struct MyString
{
string s;
}
Now use MyString as an attribute. No, the name is not lost. Yes, two
different modules can use MyString as an attribute, and impute
completely different meanings into it.
Just because it is not a builtin type does not change anything.
I think a simple way to put this is that attribute name lookup works the
same as ordinary symbol lookup. Assuming we did a good job at the
latter, the former doesn't introduce any specific issues.
Andrei
