Make const, immutable, inout, and shared illegal as function attributes on the left-hand side of a function

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 9 02:36:54 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 9 October 2014 at 08:50:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Kenji just proposed a slightly controversial pull request so I 
> want to reach out for more people to discuss it's tradeoffs.
> It's about deprecating function qualifiers on the left hand 
> side of a function.
>
> So instead of
>     const int foo();
> you'd should write
>     int foo() const;
>
> Then at some future point we could apply the left hand side 
> qualifiers to the return type, e.g. `const int foo();` == 
> `const(int) foo();`
>
> Would this affect your code?
> Do you think it makes your code better or worse?
> Is this just a pointless style change?
> Anything else?
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4043

Yes, yes, yes YES ! YYYEEEEEESSSSSS !


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