On 27 August 2012 23:54, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 8/27/2012 7:03 AM, foobar 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. >> > > The annotations design discussed was about annotating declarations, not > types. > And that may be fine for default args too. I've personally only ever used them where I've explicitly defined them.
