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Re: New syntax proposal for attributes

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On 8/7/2011 7:58 PM, Francis Glassborow wrote:
>
> On 07/08/2011 20:08, Phil Bouchard wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The new syntax for attributes is horrifying and I would like to
>> propose a new one which is very neat.
>
> That is a matter of opinion. However even if I agreed with you, it is
> almost a year too late. I think most people will become happier with the
> syntax as they get used to it (after all a great number of programmers
> have managed to become accustomed to large amounts of upper case along
> with Hungarian notation, both of which I find much more horrific)

My idea was perhaps wrong because an equal sign might be confused with
it's real purpose if we'd like to attach an attribute to a variable but
I see why attributes are declared between the function name and the
opening parenthesis.  IDEs will make the text more readable I guess.


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New syntax proposal for attributes Phil Bouchard <philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-07 13:08 -0600
  Re: New syntax proposal for attributes Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2011-08-07 17:58 -0600
    Re: New syntax proposal for attributes Phil Bouchard <philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-08 23:55 -0600
  Re: New syntax proposal for attributes BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-08 23:54 -0600

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