On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 00:02, Jens Maurer via Liaison
<liaison_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> (Personally, I think contracts should be a first-level
> language feature that should not be hidden inside an
> attribute-looking syntax atrocity. At least in C++,
> the space where they are does allow for context-sensitive
> keywords without much hassle; cf. override and final.)

Well, yeah.. if we were to entertain a contract declaration preceding
the decl-specifier,
so that it could do forward-lookup for the parameters, then the case
for an attribute-like
syntax would be relatively strong. If the contract declaration has to
appear where context-sensitive
keywords appear, then why not use a context-sensitive keyword?