On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 20:52:15 Dave via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 20:48:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 18:33:01 Dave via Digitalmars-d wrote: > >> [...] > > > > IMHO, it's bad practice to mass apply attributes with labels or > > blocks. It's far too easy to accidentally mark a function with > > an attribute that you didn't mean to, and it makes it way > > harder to figure out which attributes actually apply to a > > function. And when you add templates into the mix, applying > > attributes en masse doesn't work anyway, because pretty much > > the only time that you want to mark a template function with an > > attribute is when the template arguments have nothing to do > > with whether the attribute is appropriate or not. > > > > [...] > > So we should not follow the advice of Walter?
If he's arguing that you should slap an attribute on the top of your module to apply to everything, then no, I don't think that we should follow his advice. He's a very smart guy, but he's not always right. And in my experience, mass applying attributes is a mistake. - Jonathan M Davis
