Max Samukha wrote:
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.
I wish that's work, but Tuples flatten themselves.
