Attributes: Attribute Specification

An attribute list is a comma-separated set of attribute specifiers enclosed in << ... >>, where each attribute specifier has a name and an optional comma-separated list of values inside parentheses. For example:

<<A1(123), A2>>
class C {
  <<A3(true, 100)>>
  public function __construct() { ... }
  <<A4>>
  public function do_it(): void { ... }
}

In this example, the class C has two attributes: A1 and A2; the constructor has one attribute, A3; and the method do_it has one attribute, A4.

The attribute names do not have any scope, per se. They appear only in the context of an attribute-specification, and do not hide nor conflict with the same names used in other contexts.