On 12/10/2012 8:15 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 04:11:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I agree there was not a consensus reached on this issue. But I also feel all
the arguments were fairly represented, and it was time to make a decision.
Note that either the decision is to reserve attribution to special types, and it
is rather safe as it is what is done in other languages, or it is to allow
everything to be an attribute, and it should be field tested before going into
the main release, because unless I'm mistaken, no language do that ATM, so we
can't rely on previous experience on the subject.
Yes I understand that, and it is being extensively and heavily used since the
day I posted it, and no problems have arisen.
I also understand that you and I disagree on this issue, but at some point I've
got to make a decision.
