Type Qualifiers and Wild Cards

[deadalnix]

Le 08/11/2011 15:16, Gor Gyolchanyan a écrit :
> Makes sense, but it looks ugly. I don't know about others, but for me
> underscores in names are associated with things, that you shouldn't
> touch (including private data and functions).
> Uppercase, on the other hand is associated with high-level constructs
> (which are usually in user-space only).
> This leads to the conclusion, that keywords should be short lowercase
> one-word identifiers.
>

Agreed.

> To resolve the accurately noticed "ugly space" we could require
> parenthesis. const, shared and immutable use parentheses and it looks
> very elegant.
>
> auto(const) and auto(ref) looks better, then auto const and auto ref, IMO.
>

Parenthesis are painful to write on some keyboard. We should use them 
only to desembiguate when appropriate, not as a main syntax. This is why 
I advocate for this construct having its own keyword.