On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 15:36:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
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).
It should be #keyword than, as existing #line is closest thing to
what you describe
// allocate simd-aligned and 0-padded string by sacrificing
memory for efficiency,
// if supported
@simd string
Bad example - it impacts program semantics a lot.
// force loop-unrolling modulo 4 in order to trigger SIMD
optimizations
@unroll(4) for(…) {}
Same here. Such stuff is done by compiler-specific attributes or
pragmas. It has no similarities with stuff like #foldregion and
should not be treated same.
