On 18 December 2012 16:58, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 18 December 2012 16:43, Peter Alexander > <peter.alexander...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 15:19:58 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >>> Should we take this as an opportunity for other compiler maintainers to >>> implement their own compiler-specific predefined attributes? >>> >> >> Please, no! >> >> Suppose GDC implements @noreturn (or whatever other attribute) >> >> Later, LDC implements @noreturn separately with slightly different >> semantics. >> >> We now end up in a situation where @noreturn cannot be used portably, and >> neither compiler developer has incentive to change (whoever changes breaks >> their users code). >> >> > Provide a situation where @noreturn attribute would mean anything other > than telling the compiler to assume that the function cannot return, and > I might please you on *that* particular attribute. >
Might believe you. :=) -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';