> On Sep 27, 2016, at 20:24 , Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: > > >> On Sep 27, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Rick Mann via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> >> I did a little googling, but didn't find this specific question being asked. >> I've had the question in my head for a while now, so I apologize if I >> already brought this up. >> >> Will Swift ever support introspectable Java-style annotations? I think the >> current syntactic construct is called an Attribute, but they'd be >> customizable, created in much the same way as classes are. > > Hi Rick, > > This is something that many people are aware of and is commonly requested. > It isn’t on the short-term todo list (which is oriented around ABI stability > at the moment) but is something that many folks are interested in adding at > some point.
Thank you, that's great news. In case you're interested, this is why I want it. I'd really like to see Baratine re-implemented in pure Swift: http://baratine.io If you can spare the time, I highly recommend checking out the Getting Started. It's revolutionary for web services. -- Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution