"SomeDude" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 05:54:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: >> Am Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:39:49 -0400 >> >> Madness even! AAs are soon mostly in the library and that's a good >> trade-off; @trusted @system needs to be there as long as there is @safe; >> exception handling - some people rely on it heavily. See it as the easy >> way to error out of a function that doesn't normally return anything and >> cascade up several calls, while being able to release resources in each. >> I don't know about Phobos. Some batteries included are nice and help the >> popularity. When it comes to bindings to third party products with many >> alternatives, like databases, I'd say one should cut it there definitly. >> I can agree on the rest. > > > I don't want AA to be removed from the core language. That would be a big > step backward in my opinion. Core language AAs are entirely adequate for a > lot of applications, and they make for so much cleaner and easier to > read/write code than template notation.
There will still be sugar in the compiler so they appear to be builtins. When the switch happens, I'm sure it'll be transparent - average users probably won't even notice. It's just that "behind the scenes" their implementation will move from DMD to Druntime.
