On 02/28/2010 10:01 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
If you want a rationale, I think it'd be fine to say that attributes are things you can ignore because they only have a restrictive effect on the semantics (the definition you said you invented). Then mention there is an exception: @property.
Sorry if I go on and miss the point some more, but I dislike this a lot. That's imposing restrictions on future @attributes. Like, for example, @memoized. Or something like that. @traced, maybe.
This is me envisioning user-defined @attributes, really. They can reduce boilerplate and increase flexibility in cases like @traced.
