On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 1/4/2013 9:48 AM, Max Samukha wrote: > >> It looks we simply cannot modify existing declarations with UDAs. >> >> @(attr) alias foo = bar; // @(attr) is ignored. >> > > alias provides a way to provide an alternate name for a symbol. It > wouldn't be an alternate name if it had different attributes. Trying to > make such work would have serious semantic consequences. > > Hence, no, you cannot use alias to modify the attributes. > > The (future) documentation says attributes can be used with declarations. I tried to use one before a module declaration but it didn't work. Is that a bug or are module declarations not 'real' declarations?
