On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:01:33 UTC, A Guy With an
Opinion wrote:
- Attributes. I had another post in the Learn forum about
attributes which was unfortunate. At first I was excited
because it seems like on the surface it would help me write
better code, but it gets a little tedious and tiresome to have
to remember to decorate code with them. It seems like most of
them should have been the defaults. I would have preferred if
the compiler helped me and reminded me. I asked if there was a
way to enforce them globally, which I guess there is, but I
guess there's also not a way to turn some of them off
afterwards. A bit unfortunate. But at least I can see some
solutions to this.
Attributes were one of my biggest hurdles when working on my own
projects. For example, it's a huge PITA when you have to add a
debug writeln deep down in your call stack, and it ends up
violating a bunch of function attributes further up. Thankfully,
wrapping statements in debug {} allows you to ignore pure and
@safe violations in that code if you compile with the flag -debug.
Also, you can apply attributes to your whole project by adding
them to main
void main(string[] args) @safe {}
Although this isn't recommended, as almost no program can be
completely safe. You can do it on a per-file basis by putting the
attributes at the top like so
@safe:
pure:
