On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:24:26 -0700, Robert Fraser <fraseroftheni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Ary Borenszweig wrote: >> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP6 > >I think annotations are a good idea, but turning keywords already in the >language into annotations seems kinda pointless & would kill backwards >compatibility. In C#/Java some things are modifiers while others are >annotations -- and with good reason. > >IMO, the focus of annotations should be mostly on things _external_ to >the compiler. So, serializability, thread safety, etc. Really, I think >annotations should be for compile-time reflection (so like someone else >said __traits(annotations, symbol) should return a tuple of annotation >structs. Please not a tuple of structs but a tuple of tuples. One should be able to specify types and aliases as annotation parameters.
