Am Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:46:04 +0000 schrieb "IgorStepanov" <[email protected]>:
> Why not subj? > D allows annotate with UDA the most of named symbols. > There are three category of named symbols, which cannot be > annotated: module declarations, function arguments and enum > members. > Enum members are trivial symbols and annotation possibility for > them probably does not make sense. > However, annotation unpossibility for module declaration and > function arguments looks strange. > > Why all this talk? > I've created pull request for dmd, which allows UDA for modules > (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3947) and > Walter says that I should open topic in n.g. and justify the > usefulness of this enhancement. > In GDC we mosty use UDAs instead of pragmas, so you can do @attribute("forceinline") void foo() {}... or @forceinline void foo() {}... Obviously there are pragmas which apply to a module (e.g LDC's nomoduleinfo pragma) which we can't represent as an UDA right now. So @nomoduleinfo module a; is another possible usecase.
