Alternate declaration syntax

[Hans W. Uhlig]

Jason House wrote:
> A complete proposal must discuss delegate declaration and instantiation too... You should discuss in, out, and, ref too. I'd also avoid non-D concepts in your examples... 
> 
> Hans W. Uhlig Wrote:
> 
>> Ok, Posting to the main forum so it doesn't get lost in the const stuff.
>>
>> Perhaps a slight variation to the C declaration might be in order, since 
>> I know that multiple return values are wanted, a simple and readable 
>> syntax for inheritance is needed (using : as an inheritor does not make 
>> code more readable) try this out and see if it makes it clearer
>>
>> <modifiers,...> <identifier> <properties,...> {...}
>>
>> such that:
>> const foo(const int, const double) §
>>      throws barExtension §
>>      returns const int, const float
>> {
>>      // ... code ...
>> }
>>
>> same for classes:
>>
>> const class foo § extends bar {
>>      const int x;
>>      pure foo(const int, const double) § returns invariant string;
>>      // ... more code ...
>> }
>>
>> (Note: § is used as a divider because no one uses it for anything in 
>> programming and I didn't want to start an argument over : or | or ; or 
>> any other punctuation being used elsewhere and being bad, quite possible 
>> punctuation wouldn't be neccessary)
>>
>> It looks like a hideous cross between java and visual basic but it is 
>> clean, readable, simple to machine parse(I think) and descriptive. using 
>> slightly longer keywords makes a language a little more verbose, but it 
>> also makes it readable. if you want to use punctuation for everything 
>> you get what happened to perl when someone got a little too creative
>>
>> `$=`;$_=\%!;($_)=/(.)/;$==++$|;($.,$/,$,,$\,$",$;,$^,$#,$~,$*,$:,@%)=(
>> $!=~/(.)(.).(.)(.)(.)(.)..(.)(.)(.)..(.)......(.)/,$"),$=++;$.++;$.++;
>> $_++;$_++;($_,$\,$,)=($~.$"."$;$/$%[$?]$_$\$,$:$%[$?]",$"&$~,$#,);$,++
>> ;$,++;$^|=$";`$_$\$,$/$:$;$~$*$%[$?]$.$~$*${#}$%[$?]$;$\$"$^$~$*.>&$=`
> 
I will see about drafting up a proposal on saturday.