On 3/17/2012 9:12 PM, F i L wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
I also do not get why per-instance attributes even exist, as I agree that's
what fields are for.
Attributes are per-type (type properties, methods, etc), not per-instance, and
only accessible (in C#) through type reflection (to my knowledge). According to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z919e8tw(v=vs.80).aspx attribute objects
aren't constructed until reflected upon.
My impression is it is just obfuscation around a simple lazy initialization
pattern.
While I can see the abstraction usefulness of compile time attribute metadata, I
am having a hard time seeing what the gain is with runtime attributes over more
traditional techniques.
