> I know I keep beating this horse, but in other languages, this is the > textbook example for why annotations are useful. Adding metadata to > code, even if it can only be examined at compile time, can be > immensely useful.
I agree, I think the @attrs should have been shorthand for user defined templates, or at least available as a string list through __traits. (this is one place where I disagree with the status quo quite a bit) But, we can emulate it through mixins and strings, at least.
