[swift-evolution] Adding custom attributes

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Radosław Smogura
<swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> Hello Swift Team,
>
> As it’s my first post on this mailing list, let me introduce my self. My name is Radek Smogura, and for 10 year I work as developer, mainly Java and I know C and C++. I would like to join Swift community and work on Swift language. Previously for hobby I  added properties syntax to it and full closure support (you can find it here https://bitbucket.org/radoslaw_smogura/java-closures-silver-jdk9-langtools/wiki/Home).
>
> I would like to propose custom attributes support, as it would make Swift more robust language, by allowing dependency injection and managed objects (ie. for Core Data or some trivial example like defining JSON structures for REST). I would as well to contribute to this feature to Swift language if possible as fork or branch.

Custom attributes are an interesting direction that already came up on
this list, but there was no concrete proposal with syntax and
semantics.  Before you spend time implementing something extensive, I
would strongly recommend you to float the idea on swift-evolution, and
follow-up with a formal proposal if there is consensus.

Dmitri

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