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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/10/2014 10:31 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> You shouldn't be blaming C++ for mistakes that D made.

I meant when perceptions about what something means are carried over from one 
language to another.


> Equally, static does not have a double-meaning.

static famously in C++ has multiple meanings :-) and does so in D as well.

Overloading keywords with more than one meaning is common practice and isn't 
necessarily bad in a programming language. In D, we overload 'this' with at 
least 3 distinct meanings.