• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Aug 01 2009
• aarti_pl <aarti interia.pl> Aug 01 2009
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Aug 01 2009
• aarti_pl <aarti interia.pl> Aug 01 2009
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> Aug 01 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu:
 We can't throw keywords at problems like they're getting out of style. 
 I've noticed that here every little problem gets solved by a little 
 keyword. If not, some arcane new syntax.


I agree, attributes (or something like that) are a better solution to this (and
other) problem.
Anyway, this discussion is going in circles :-)

Bye,
bearophile

aarti_pl <aarti interia.pl> writes:

bearophile pisze:
  > I agree, attributes (or something like that) are a better solution 
to this (and other) problem.

What you mean saying "attributes"? Probably I missed some posts...

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

aarti_pl:
 What you mean saying "attributes"?<


See for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation

It's not an esoteric thing, It's a way to add some extra semantics to a program.
In a low-level language like D there are other possible purposes for
annotations/attributes (that aren't useful in Java), you can add semantics that
helps avoid bugs or can be used by the optimizer to increase the efficiency of
the compiled program (GCC too has some of such function/variable attributes), I
can show some examples.

Bye,
bearophile

aarti_pl <aarti interia.pl> writes:

bearophile pisze:
 aarti_pl:
 What you mean saying "attributes"?<


 See for example:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation
 
 It's not an esoteric thing, It's a way to add some extra semantics to a
program.
 In a low-level language like D there are other possible purposes for
annotations/attributes (that aren't useful in Java), you can add semantics that
helps avoid bugs or can be used by the optimizer to increase the efficiency of
the compiled program (GCC too has some of such function/variable attributes), I
can show some examples.
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


Thanks for answer! I know Java annotations - I just didn't know what you 
meant saying "attribute".

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

aarti_pl escribió:
 bearophile pisze:
 aarti_pl:
 What you mean saying "attributes"?<


 See for example:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation

 It's not an esoteric thing, It's a way to add some extra semantics to 
 a program.
 In a low-level language like D there are other possible purposes for 
 annotations/attributes (that aren't useful in Java), you can add 
 semantics that helps avoid bugs or can be used by the optimizer to 
 increase the efficiency of the compiled program (GCC too has some of 
 such function/variable attributes), I can show some examples.

 Bye,
 bearophile


 Thanks for answer! I know Java annotations - I just didn't know what you 
 meant saying "attribute".


Ah, it's because in C# they are called attributes. You know, C# and Java 
always try to come up with the same things but with different names. :-P