So I was trying to add some attributes to unittests in my code, but apparently they are only allowed *before* the unittest keyword, which I think makes it much harder to quickly see the unittests when scrolling through the code:

void foo() @safe pure nothrow @nogc { } // Ok - I normally use this style, and Phobos does too, I think?
@safe pure nothrow @nogc void bar() { } // Ok

@safe pure nothrow @nogc unittest { foo(); } // Ok
unittest @safe pure nothrow @nogc { bar(); } // Nope

I looked through the D grammar and it does seem to disallow this, so it's not a bug as such, but is there a particular reason to not allow it?

On 22/03/2015 10:29 p.m., Stefan Frijters wrote:
> So I was trying to add some attributes to unittests in my code, but
> apparently they are only allowed *before* the unittest keyword, which I
> think makes it much harder to quickly see the unittests when scrolling
> through the code:
>
> void foo() @safe pure nothrow @nogc { } // Ok - I normally use this
> style, and Phobos does too, I think?
> @safe pure nothrow @nogc void bar() { } // Ok
>
> @safe pure nothrow @nogc unittest { foo(); } // Ok
> unittest @safe pure nothrow @nogc { bar(); } // Nope
>
> I looked through the D grammar and it does seem to disallow this, so
> it's not a bug as such, but is there a particular reason to not allow it?

Post attributes to e.g. functions are a relatively new standard in D. It'll simply be nobody has brought it up as of yet.

File it into the issue tracker.

On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 09:42:44 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 22/03/2015 10:29 p.m., Stefan Frijters wrote:
>> So I was trying to add some attributes to unittests in my code, but
>> apparently they are only allowed *before* the unittest keyword, which I
>> think makes it much harder to quickly see the unittests when scrolling
>> through the code:
>>
>> void foo() @safe pure nothrow @nogc { } // Ok - I normally use this
>> style, and Phobos does too, I think?
>> @safe pure nothrow @nogc void bar() { } // Ok
>>
>> @safe pure nothrow @nogc unittest { foo(); } // Ok
>> unittest @safe pure nothrow @nogc { bar(); } // Nope
>>
>> I looked through the D grammar and it does seem to disallow this, so
>> it's not a bug as such, but is there a particular reason to not allow it?
>
> Post attributes to e.g. functions are a relatively new standard in D. It'll simply be nobody has brought it up as of yet.
>
> File it into the issue tracker.

Thank you.
While filing in the summary field in Bugzilla it actually showed me an issue already exists https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10925 , so I just bumped it a bit.