I’m in the same boat.

I think metadata tags feel much better as well.

If tools can help with validating metadata tags it would be even better.

On Dec 12, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Josh Tynjala <[email protected]> wrote:

> I notice that you seem to have a preference for custom ASDoc tags, like
> @externs or @flexjsignorecoercion for changing the compiler's behavior. Why
> not metadata, like [Extern] or [IgnoreCoercion], instead? Personally, using
> ASDoc tags for something other than documentation doesn't feel quite right
> to me. Metadata has long been used to pass extra information to the
> compiler, though. Plus, if something needs more complex configuration,
> metadata is more like setting properties on an object:
> [Metadata(option1="true",option2="hello world")]. I've been meaning to ask
> you about this for a while, but I kept forgetting.

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