We should deprecate C-style declarations

Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvcastro at yahoo.es
Mon Nov 16 04:19:17 PST 2009


Don Wrote:

> Before TDPL is published, I think we should finally get rid of C-style 
> declarations. Supporting two styles of declarations just causes 
> confusion, and AFAIK it doesn't have any benefits -- for example, it 
> doesn't significantly help in porting code from C. D declarations are 
> just better. And there are bugs such as this one, which seem to require 
> abandoning C declarations:
> 
> bug #2392 Parsing ambiguity between function pointer declaration and 
> function call
> 
> At the very least, can we make sure that TDPL doesn't commit us to 
> retaining them forever?
> 

++votes;



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