### Dennis
Dennis said he'd been working on that AA PR, but had nothing
else to report. He still had some other things to pursue, like
looking at pattern support for the deprecation (-d/-de/-dw) and
obsolete warning (-wo) switches, as well as the `standalone`
attribute or pragma for static constructors.
Please use "pragma" to be consistent with other static
constructors. There are few reasons to do so
1. DMD does not have consistent way of defining system attribute
which can cause conflict with user attribute (DMD system
attribute should start with underscore character, "_")
2. If old DMD version can not handle new pragma identifier, it is
because the list is hardcoded. Should have/add ignore pragma
identifier list defined in sc.ini so that it can be updated at
will without rebuild
3. DMD has attribute soup problem because it does not have negate
setting. If top module has
"@nogc:" and later a function that supports garbage collect
should just use its negate form "@!nogc"
4. DMD attribute should/must not use negate word form so @nogc ->
@!gc ....
Cheers
