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

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Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/faq.html#q3

from http://www.digitalmars.com/d/overview.html

"Major Goals of D
[...]
     * Make D substantially easier to implement a compiler for than C++."

If people don't want it, then it just adds unnecessarily to the task of making a 
compiler.