On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 07:39:21 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 00:59:26 UTC, Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-
>> I submit that the syntax for attributes should be streamlined. Shall I
>> go and open a Bugzilla item?
>
> No need: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP64

Besides the @ symbols, isn't there also some inconsistency on
whether attributes go before or after the declaration?

@property public static void foo() const @safe pure nothrow

I've never bothered to ascertain how much of the positioning is
optional, but definitely none of it makes sense.

On Friday, October 24, 2014 23:38:38 Chris Williams via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 07:39:21 UTC, Gary Willoughby
>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 00:59:26 UTC, Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-
> >
> >> I submit that the syntax for attributes should be streamlined.
> >> Shall I
> >> go and open a Bugzilla item?
> >
> > No need: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP64
>
> Besides the @ symbols, isn't there also some inconsistency on whether attributes go before or after the declaration?
>
> @property public static void foo() const @safe pure nothrow
>
> I've never bothered to ascertain how much of the positioning is optional, but definitely none of it makes sense.

Yeah. Some attributes are legal on both sides, others on only one, and I'm not aware of much logic to it (though at the moment, I don't think that there are any that are only legal on the right, so you could get away with just putting them all on the left). I think that it's primarily attributes that exist in other languages (and go on the left in those languages) that have to go on the left (e.g. public, private, static). Most (all?) of the D-specific ones can go on both sides. The ones that actually cause problems with that though are const, immutable, inout, and shared, because without parens, when they're put on the left, they still affect the function and not the return type, so quite a few of us have argued that they should be illegal on the left.

- Jonathan M Davis