Subject: Attributes
From: Ian Wilson (imw@antrim.com)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 11:11:11 PST
>
> BTW, where does everyone stand on attributes - is everyone implementing
> the general purpose attribute scheme?
>
> Kev.
>
Attributes strike me as a useful prototyping mechanism, for doing
compile-time jobs for which system tasks, etc, can't be used.
Because they are essentially structured text, they don't provide
the robustness that syntactical additions to the language can.
I don't think that the 1394-2000 attribute extensions provide a
set of rules to avoid collisions over attribute usage. This is
likely to be a significant source of portability problems if
used to implement additions to AMS that belong in the language
proper.
And yes, we implement the general purpose attribute scheme.
--ian
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