On 21 April 2012 00:50, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:

On 21 April 2012 00:05, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> wrote:
Whether that'll change or not, I don't know, since it's not clear that Walter
considers it to be a problem from what I recall about his comments on
discussions on it.

Hmm, I tend to think it would be valuable to have a warning or error in the case of redundant attribution, that way I know I'm not polluting my code with spurious junk, but I can see there might be some implication for meta-programming.

Or perhaps more significantly, I would know when I'm erroneously applying attributes that don't have any effect, or don't make sense, I may have actually meant something else, but it silently works, and I'm not given any reason to think I made a mistake.

It may alleviate misunderstandings like this somewhat, and naturally give a clearer understanding of what does what exactly.