On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 00:13:49 UTC, Shammah Chancellor
wrote:
My understanding is that @ attributes were for used-defined
behavior only.
It is all a historical thing... at first, all new things were
done as keywords. Then around the time @safe came around, they
were changing their minds and new things became @keywords. Then,
some time after that, UDAs came around and used the @ syntax.
But the reason it is pure and @safe instead of @pure @safe or
pure and safe is just historical accident - they were introduced
in that particular phase, and now the worry is changing it will
annoyingly break too much code for very little real benefit.
