DIP69: problem with scope grammar - need a new keyword

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 8 03:44:43 PST 2014


On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 09:46:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I thought I could make this work, but it's a problem. There are 
> two meanings for scope when attached to a function:
>
>     T func() scope;   // the 'this' pointer is 'scope'
>     scope T func();   // the function returns a 'scope' T
>
> I have some ideas, but don't particularly like any of them. But 
> I don't want to bias things, so what ideas do you guys have?

You could make the 2nd an error and insist on it being written 
scope(T)


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