In our previous episode, Boian Mitov said: > Except attributes can't be confused with variables ;-).
The variables can't be confused with attributes. Attributes are only useful in addition to an established languages, and as extensions/implementation specific parts (so that the simpler parsers can afford to ignore them). As soon as you have two equal implementations like Delphi and FPC adding to them independently, you are back to square one. > And the other benefit I did not mentioned earlier, a lot of the attributes > (if not all) can actually be implemented as compiler extending libraries ;-) The only advantage of attributes is that you can skip unknown ones at the expense of terser syntax. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel