> On Sep 27, 2016, at 20:24 , Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On Sep 27, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Rick Mann via swift-evolution
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I did a little googling, but didn't find this specific question being asked.
>> I've had the question in my head for a while now, so I apologize if I
>> already brought this up.
>>
>> Will Swift ever support introspectable Java-style annotations? I think the
>> current syntactic construct is called an Attribute, but they'd be
>> customizable, created in much the same way as classes are.
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> This is something that many people are aware of and is commonly requested.
> It isn’t on the short-term todo list (which is oriented around ABI stability
> at the moment) but is something that many folks are interested in adding at
> some point.
Thank you, that's great news.
In case you're interested, this is why I want it. I'd really like to see
Baratine re-implemented in pure Swift:
http://baratine.io
If you can spare the time, I highly recommend checking out the Getting Started.
It's revolutionary for web services.
--
Rick Mann
[email protected]
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