• Andrew Wiley <debio264 gmail.com> Mar 10 2011
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Mar 10 2011
• Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> Mar 10 2011
• Andrew Wiley <debio264 gmail.com> Mar 11 2011

Andrew Wiley <debio264 gmail.com> writes:

This is a topic that seems to come up every so often (well, I bring it
up every so often, but I haven't really heard negative remarks about
it), and I was wondering what it would take to move forward with
getting user defined annotations into the language, and whether it
would be feasible for D2. Would the next step be to make a full
proposal?

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrew Wiley:

 Would the next step be to make a full proposal?


Creating a pre-D Enhancement Proposal (pre-DEP) is good.

Bye,
bearophile

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2011-03-11 04:30, Andrew Wiley wrote:
 This is a topic that seems to come up every so often (well, I bring it
 up every so often, but I haven't really heard negative remarks about
 it), and I was wondering what it would take to move forward with
 getting user defined annotations into the language, and whether it
 would be feasible for D2. Would the next step be to make a full
 proposal?


For this to be useful that language would probably need better 
reflection capabilities, either compile time or runtime.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Andrew Wiley <debio264 gmail.com> writes:

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> wrote:
 On 2011-03-11 04:30, Andrew Wiley wrote:
 This is a topic that seems to come up every so often (well, I bring it
 up every so often, but I haven't really heard negative remarks about
 it), and I was wondering what it would take to move forward with
 getting user defined annotations into the language, and whether it
 would be feasible for D2. Would the next step be to make a full
 proposal?


 For this to be useful that language would probably need better reflection
 capabilities, either compile time or runtime.


As I see it, the proposal should probably include how this should look
in compile time reflection. As far as I know, runtime reflection has
even less of a plan than user defined annotations, and the two should
probably be proposed separately.