Deprecate C style declerations?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Chris Nicholson-Sauls" <ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:emcekr$2sah$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Should we do this?  As in cause:
>
> # int foo[];
> # int bar*;
>
> And others to issue deprecation errors.  I think it would be a good idea, 
> and shouldn't break extern(C) declarations, so long as one doesn't try to 
> mix types.  (I don't think we can mix them in the C way at all, anyhow. 
> Haven't tried, though.)

I agree, though

int bar*;

isn't legal any way you slice it, D or C.

I'd also be interested in phasing out the C-style function pointer syntax:

int (*foo)(int, int);
=>
int function(int, int) foo;

> Or else change the rules such that array/pointer decoration applies to the 
> variable and not the type -- and correct me if I'm wrong about this not 
> being the current behavior.
>
> # int num   ,
> #     arr[] ,
> #     ptr*  ;
>
> vs
>
> # int   num ;
> # int[] arr ;
> # int*  ptr ;

I think that C "feature" was dropped in D because it makes multiple 
declarations harder to read.