C-Style declarations, are they here to stay?!! Walter?

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Fri Mar 31 15:36:37 PST 2006


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>
>> So Walter, I would like to please hear your opinion/decision about 
>> C-Style declarations; are they here to stay? or will they be 
>> deprecated at some point?
> 
> I'm hoping they will be deprecated before 1.0.  While this may mean a 
> small amount of extra work porting headers, I think it's worthwhile.

I left them in because they do not cause any ambiguities or trouble with 
the D declaration syntax. It also significantly reduces the amount of 
work needed to translate code to D. I don't see a compelling reason to 
remove them; just don't use them if you don't like them.



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