On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 14:32:20 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
Originally @ was added for some new keywords to get a new
"namespace" for keywords. There was no risk of conflict with
Understand. Objective-C and Python also suffers from the
arbitrary "@" syntax. Basically what I would like to see is
"@keyword" on stuff that can be hidden without making the
semantics less clear (so you could have a "hide/show" button in
your editor). I think it also would make the language easier for
newbies if they can easily separate
advanced-stuff-I-don't-need-to-understand-yet from more vital
constructs.
It is easy to come up with many potentially useful "compiler
hints" for programmers that care about performance:
// allocate simd-aligned and 0-padded string by sacrificing
memory for efficiency,
// if supported
@simd string
// force loop-unrolling modulo 4 in order to trigger SIMD
optimizations
@unroll(4) for(…) {}
etc...
