On 4/6/12 6:29 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 04/06/2012 12:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/6/2012 2:50 AM, Ary Manzana wrote:
The syntax in Java for declaring an attribute:
public @interface Foo {
String xxx;
int yyy;
}
In D maybe @interface could be used to (in order to avoid introducing
another
keyword... or maybe use @attribute instead):
@attribute Foo {
string xxx;
int yyy;
}
I don't see the need for creating a new kind of symbol.
It would behave like a struct anyway. The issue is whether any struct
should be allowed to be used as an attribute, or whether a runtime
instance of an attribute can be created.
Syntax could just as well be this:
@attribute struct Foo {
// ...
}
True, I struct can be fine. And I don't see any problem in using it in
runtime. Though I'm sure nobody would like it to remain in the obj file
if it's only used at compile time...
