Attribute inference for auto functions?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Apr 17 20:19:33 PDT 2013


On 4/17/2013 7:50 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 April 2013 at 02:40:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/16/2013 8:22 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> There's a discussion that may be of interest to the larger community:
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1877
>>
>> What do you think of this:
>>
>>      typeof(return) foo(int x) { return x; }
>>
>> ? That would only infer the return type, not the attributes.
>
> I don't actually have an opinion on whether attributes should be inferred, but
> '@auto' (as opposed to '@infer') would be a relatively innocuous way to do it
> explicitly instead of implicitly.

Except that we already support typeof(return) inside of a function.


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