On 2013-01-04 21:33, Era Scarecrow wrote:
This is sorta like tuples; But from the brief summaries I cannot fully
understand how or where they would be used. I understand some attributes
can be made and added that some compilers may use (@noreturn as an
example), but outside of the compiler I'd need an example of how to make
use of them.
Since there's no runtime component, then aside from carrying a tuple and
some information forward at compile-time, what else can it do? How would
you use it? Are there any special tuple formats that give information to
automatically be included/compiled into the structs/classes without
having to resort to mixins?
It could be used for serialization, for example. Have a look at my
serialization library, Orange.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18386187/orange_docs/orange.serialization.Serializable.html
Look at the "NonSerialized" template, that could now be replaced by a
UDA. Like this:
class Foo
{
int a;
@NonSerialized int b; // will not be (de)serialized
}
--
/Jacob Carlborg
