On Fri, 13 Sept 2024, 09:31 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d, <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On 9/11/2024 3:44 PM, Manu wrote:
> The article given above shows why arbitrary hints given as stand-alone
> statements in a flow causes nonsense when conflicting annotationsĀ appear within
> a flow.

It reminds me of the wretched

__declspec
__attribute__
__pragma
_Pragma
#pragma

additions to C that don't fit in the grammar in any sane manner

Yes, that's exactly why this thread exists. What you describe is the situation we have in D today...