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

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 9 Oct 2014 09:55, "Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d" <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 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

You have my full support in this.  What we should first focus on it the
path of least resistance to making this happen.  Preferably sooner rather
than later.

Iain.
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