On 2011-01-20 15:02, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:47:28 -0500, Justin Johansson <j...@nospam.com> wrote:
Not long ago the Java Language people introduced the idea of
annotations together with an annotation processing tool (apt).
Now perhaps the idea of source code annotations is not actually a Java
invention per se, however for someone learning D is there any
equivalent idiom [of Java annotations] in the D language?
Haven't used Java since they added annotations, but I think they are
like C# attributes?
In any case, D has an annotation syntax like:
@property
But I think at the moment, annotations have no custom ability. Only
compiler-defined annotations are allowed. This may change in the future,
but probably not short-term. FWIW, I think we need a much richer
runtime-reflection capability before we can use custom annotations to
any great effect.
-Steve
I would rather formulate it like: currently D has a syntax for keywords
that are similar to Java annotations.
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/Jacob Carlborg
