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.
