Ary Borenszweig, el 3 de agosto a las 11:14 me escribiste: > >annotation syntax in C# and Java looks like an ugly hack to me. Purely a > >subjective opinion, of course, but it seems really out of place in a > >C-family > >language. > > Attributes has many, many other uses. Appart from serialization, you could > specify how a field is stored in a database. How a method maps to an http > request (post, get, which parameters to bind to the request, etc.). Whether a > method should do security checks before executing. Whether a method should be > run as a test, and what's the expected exception to be thrown. [insert your > usage here]
It's easy to support some sort of primitive-explicit AOP[1] too. It's very used in Python. For example I've implemented the synchronized "attribute" in Python using decorators (annotations). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love las minifaldas on Esmeralda And the sexy porteños trying to pick up the Argenteenagers. How nice, the Argenteenagers Tomando sol in the primavera de Buenos Aires...
