On 09/08/2012 06:44 PM, bearophile wrote:
Timon Gehr:
It is valid according to the grammar and DMD ignores meaningless
attributes.
Do you know why?
No reason.
Is it just a unfinished part of dmd, or Walter believes
this is an acceptable design for a compiler?
Jonathan would say he has more important things to do.
In years I have never heard a comment from him on this bad situation.
I'd design it differently as well. But this is the kind of thing that
can be ignored indefinitely without hurting the programmer more than
once. A similar issue is that the compiler actually won't detect
clashing function overloads, leaving the error report up to the linker.
