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

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 21:10:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Const works differently in D than in C++, and this doesn't 
> change that. First off,

I think it's rather unfortunate that D used keywords from C++ for 
things that work differently. const in particular but struct and 
class cause confusion and bickering too. Think of all the hours 
spent on this newsgroup arguing about logical const. If D's const 
were called something else like readonly nobody would be trying 
to shoehorn logical const into it and calls for logical const 
would have been discussed without having to pit two features 
against each other for a single spot in the language.

Another is char for utf-8 code units. So many people assume a 
char is a character when it's actually only sometimes a character 
by coincidence. If it had a different name like utf8_unit people 
would probably write more unicode correct code naturally.