On 08/27/2012 04:53 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 8/27/12 7:34 AM, Manu wrote:
On 27 August 2012 17:03, foobar <f...@bar.com <mailto:f...@bar.com>> wrote:
This discussion is all sorts of wrong. Whoever said that defargs are
metadata (Manu?) was right. Therefore it would make sense to
implement a general metadata facility for D and use *that* for
defargs. C++11 has annotations, so that's the place to start looking
at. D has already enough of those pesky special case features, let's
not add yet another one at the expense of a more general
metadata/annotation mechanism which eventually would be added anyway
due to popular demand.
Yes, I suggested this as a possibility above, but nobody commented. It
seems like it might solve 2 problems with one stone ;)
Whilst I agree a metadata facility is an interesting topic to look into,
I think default arguments for functions is a poor motivating example.
Andrei
+1.
