On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 10:45, Ville Voutilainen via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 12:25, Aurelien Cassagnes
> <aurelien.cassagnes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Dont wanna, won’t, defend this *thing* here but… You probably/likely
> know that parsing annotations is basically parsing attributes, so hinting
> that we solved ignorability by having annotations is not I think, a real
> rebuttal
>
> Well, I don't really care which thing is considered a rebuttal for
> what by whom, but if an argument for using an attribute is that
> there's
> going to be attribute-like facilities that are not ignored, and
> someone envisions writing a paper about such, it's perhaps worth
> pointing
> out that C++ already has such a facility.
>

Not a paper, but worth reading:
https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/03/25/attributes/