On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:20:41 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-26 20:50, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> It's good to have this discussion.
>>
>> Previously, it's all been advocacy and "break my code" by forcing a
>> change from pure => @pure.
>>
>> Just a few days ago on slashdot, an anonymous D user wrote:
>>
>> "A horrible mix of keywords and annotation syntax for
>> function/method attributes ('const', 'pure', and 'nothrow' are all
>> keywords, but '@property', and '@nogc' are annotations)"
>>
>> for why he won't use D anymore.
>>
>> Frankly, I think that is a great bikeshedding non-issue that distracts
>> us from what is important. I hope that by doing this PR, we can
>> actually decide that it isn't worth it, i.e. I'd be happy to get
>> consensus and revert it.
>
> How is this change going to help when there's still a bunch of
> attributes that can not be prefixed with '@', immutable, const, public
> and so on?who cares? it's SLASHDOT USER! i doubt that he wrote anything except "helloworld" in D, but it's SLASHDOT USER! reddit and slashdot users are first-class citizens for D, and actual D users are of no importance.
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