On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 17:21:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
The term "attribute" is a bit confusing, especially since
"property" is
also used in the language to refer to something completely
different. A
better term is perhaps "annotation". The @foo is an annotation
on x, but
its type is just int.
Agree whole-heartedly. I usually introduce people to the idea by
referring to them as annotations, which they understand quickly,
then later tell them that it's called an attribute because of
reasons no one knows. I get funny looks, but at least they
comprehend it. I'm not so sure it's too late to get the
terminology changed, though, and I sincerely hope it will.
