On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 01:14:01 UTC, Zach the Mystic
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 00:57:24 UTC, Jonathan Marler
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 00:44:14 UTC, Zach the Mystic
3. Singularity of usage also matters. There should only be one
way to mark a given attribute, either with or without `@`.
I agree that the proposal doesn't solve the consistency issue,
but the proposal doesn't make things more inconsistent then
they already are. It adds another way to write these
attributes, but it adds a way that makes more sense in my
opinion. This is a step in the right direction in solving the
problem. The next step would be to solve the consistency
issue, but again, that's another debate. To conclude, which
code would you rather write?
The consistency issue is precisely that there should not be
more than one way to write an attribute. Note that that's
precisely where most of the opposition to this thread's
original proposal came from. Uniformity means never having to
explain to anybody why there is more than one way to do
something. Both this thread's proposal and your proposal
*introduce* inconsistency in this way.
The old syntax can be deprecated and removed after an appropriate
period.
