06-02-10 - Directives in the right place

I'm annoyed with "volatile" and "restrict" and all that shit because I believe they put the directive in the wrong place - on the variable declaration - when really what you are trying to do is modify certain *actions* , so the qualifier should be on the *actions* not the variables.

eg. if I write some matrix multiply routine and I know I have made it memory-alias safe, I want to say "restrict" on the *code* chunk, not on certain variables.

Same thing with "volatile" in the Java/C++0x/MSVC>=2005 sense, it's really a command for the load or the store, eg. "this store must actually be written to memory and must be ordered against other stores" , not a descriptor of a variable.