Re: custom attribute proposal (yeah, another one)

[bls]

On 04/06/2012 10:51 AM, bls wrote:

On 04/06/2012 07:04 AM, Manu wrote:

I think Johannes proposal already nails it. What benefits would be
merged from this proposal? How would they influence the design?

On 04/06/2012 11:41 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:

Declaring a custom attribute:
---------
module std.something;

struct Author
{
string name;
public this(string name)
{
this.name <http://this.name> = name;
}
}
---------

Oh the joy of copy and paste ..

struct Annotation  //Throw in all your annotations
{

    Variant[] [string] map;

    Variant[] opDispatch(string key)()
    {
               return map[key];
    }

    // Single value
    void opDispatch(string key, T) (T t )
    if ( !isArray!T && !isTuple!T )
    {
        map[key] ~= to!Variant(t);
        return;
     }
    // Allow ....Array and Tuple too
}