Attribute inference for auto functions?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Apr 17 12:53:04 PDT 2013


On 4/17/2013 12:58 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> Back to the subject, if auto bind to the function it must infers attributes, if
> it binds to the return type, it mustn't. And right now, storage class bind to
> the function.

'auto', like all storage class annotations such as 'const', binds to the 
declaration and the declaration's type. It is perfectly consistent.


 > extern(C) void function() foo; // does extern binds to foo, foo's type or both ?

foo is being declared, so it binds to foo.

 > pure function() function() bar; // is bar a pure function ? is bar() pure ? 
Noth ? How to choose ?

bar is being declared, so it binds to bar.



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