retard: > Beats? Yes, in my opinion it's better than the alternatives. In the end here what I will use in normal code is the basic strategy of using just comments.
>Documentation tools need to be aware of this. D uses ddoc, as basic solution for this. >Requires compiler patch. As any solution that changes the language, yes. > You need to educate this to new users etc. I think it's not hard to understand and remember. >Did I already mention it increases the complexity of a language that is >already fighting featuritis.< But it also simplifies code, makes it a bit safer, avoiding some possible bugs both of the original problem and created by the alternative solutions. In the end I think this feature it's not worth it because it's a solution to a very specific problem (but this is also true for few other features of D2 that I think can be removed). Bye, bearophile
