On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:47:28 -0500, Justin Johansson <j...@nospam.com> > wrote: > > Not long ago the Java Language people introduced the idea of annotations >> together with an annotation processing tool (apt). >> >> Now perhaps the idea of source code annotations is not actually a Java >> invention per se, however for someone learning D is there any equivalent >> idiom [of Java annotations] in the D language? >> > > Haven't used Java since they added annotations, but I think they are like > C# attributes? > > In any case, D has an annotation syntax like: > > @property > > But I think at the moment, annotations have no custom ability. Only > compiler-defined annotations are allowed. This may change in the future, > but probably not short-term. FWIW, I think we need a much richer > runtime-reflection capability before we can use custom annotations to any > great effect. > I would find it useful to be able to access annotations as part of compile time reflection, actually, but AFAIK no progress has been made on that front so far.
