[fpc-devel] Proof of Concept ARC implementation

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Boian Mitov said:
> Except attributes can't be confused with variables ;-).

The variables can't be confused with attributes.

Attributes are only useful in addition to an established languages, and as
extensions/implementation specific parts (so that the simpler parsers can
afford to ignore them).

As soon as you have two equal implementations like Delphi and FPC adding to
them independently, you are back to square one.

> And the other benefit I did not mentioned earlier, a lot of the attributes 
> (if not all) can actually be implemented as compiler extending libraries ;-) 

The only advantage of attributes is that you can skip unknown ones at the
expense of terser syntax.