On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 01:20:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 01:01:15 Nicholas Wilson via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
That attributes are combinable and aliasable are nice side
effects of being regular attributes which in general are one
of the main foci of the DIP (the other being fixing the
non-invertibility).
Which is precisely why I don't like it. Fixing
non-invertibility is great. I don't like any of the rest.
Any editor that has dcd (or other tooling) support should be
able to immediately resolve which aliases refer to what as its
only symbol resolution. Yes it won't be able to do inference
but it can't under the current system either.
Regardless, it means that I would need to run a tool to figure
out which attributes actually applied to a function rather than
just reading it like I could do now. And the fact that this is
can be done with UDAs right now is _not_ a plus. I can
understand wanting to reduce the number of attributes being
manually applied to functions, but I think that hiding them
with aliases and/or combined attributes is a maintenance
nightmare and would argue that it's just plain bad practice.
- Jonathan M Davis
Then we shall just have to agree to disagree. I am of the opinion
that they are very useful properties of UDAs and that's part of
why I wrote that DIP.
