const member function synatx?

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:40:32 -0500, renoX wrote:

> im Wrote:
[snip]
> 
> If D used Limbo and Scala syntax for this <function
> name>(<parameters>):<return value> then there would be no ambiguity:
> const memberFunc(param): ReturnType {} memberFunc(param): const
> ReturnType {} const memberFunc(param): const ReturnType {}
> 
> Walter has chosen an inferior syntax in the name of programmers
> familiarity, this is unlikely to change..
> 
> renoX

That syntax would be nicer indeed.
We may be able to omit the void return type this way:

"print()" instead of "void print()"

I personally prefer to move the return type into the function header,
but that's another pile of issues.