On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 09:13:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 01:38:52 +0000
uri via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
Bit new to D so this might be a very naive question...
Can the compiler auto infer function attributes?
I am often adding as many attributes as possible and use the
compiler to show me where they're not applicable and take them
away. It would be great if this could be achieved like so:
auto function() @auto
{}
instead of manually writing:
auto function() pure @safe nothrow @nogc const
{}
Currently, just templated functions get their attributes
inferred. The biggest
problem with inferring them for all functions is that you can
declare a
function without defining it in the same place (e.g. if you're
using .di
files), in which case the compiler has no function body to use
for attribute
inferrence.
There have been discussions on ways to reasonably infer
attributes under more
circumstances, but nothing has come of them yet. However, I'd
expect that
there will be at least some improvements to the situation at
some point given
that there is a general consensus that while the attributes are
quite useful,
it's also rather annoying to have to keep typing them all.
- Jonathan M Davis
Thanks guys for the info.
/uri