Re: Why do some attributes have an @ symbol and others don't?

2018-09-15 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 12:40:07 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Is it just a legacy thing? Yeah, basically the ones that date back to before the @ thing don't have it, and the ones after it do.

Why do some attributes have an @ symbol and others don't?

2018-09-15 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn
Why do some attributes have an @ symbol and others don't? I thought it might be because some are used as keywords for other things but then 'pure' doesn't follow that rule. Any ideas? Is it just a legacy thing?