On Friday, December 14, 2012 09:34:50 PM Timon Gehr wrote: > On 12/14/2012 08:42 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > On 2012-12-14 01:19, Walter Bright wrote: > >> It was the D community that selected the @(attribute) syntax, and the > >> overall design was based on extensive public discussion threads here > >> about it. > > > > And you still implemented the [attribute] syntax first. > > It is my understanding that the public discussion deciding in favour of > @(attribute) was started after [attribute] had already been implemented.
Yes. But I believe that pretty much every other discussion on it prior to it actually being implemented discussed using parens and not brackets. - Jonathan M Davis