Please stop polluting D 2.0 with C/C++ programmer assumptions.

[Bill Baxter]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> Hi Walter (and NG).
> 
> I've been trying to follow the NG lately (which is fairly time 
> consuming) and I really only have one thing to say:
> 
> 1) Remove the support for C style declaration.
> 2) Make suffix const the only way to declare a const method.
> 3) Stop assuming C++ programmers wants D to feel like C++.
> 4) Please...
> 
> This stuff is killing me! For the first time in D2.0 history I'm feeling 
> it's on the right track, but things like:
> 
> class C {
>     const const int[] func();
> }

That one is a syntax error.  Should be

class C {
     const const(int[]) func();
}

But I don't understand the logic of 3)"don't assume C++ folks want D to 
look like C++" and 2)"make suffix const the only way [like C++]".  It 
seems like a mild contradiction.

--bb