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

[Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:47:55 +0100, Martin Nowak  
<code+news.digitalmars at dawg.eu> wrote:

> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4043#issuecomment-58748353
>
> There has been a broad support for this on the newsgroup discussion  
> because this regularly confuses beginners.
> There are also some arguments against it (particularly by Walter) saying  
> that this change will put too much work on D code owners.
>
> Let's continue with the following steps.
> - add RHS/LHS function qualifiers to D's style guide
> - change all code formatting (like dmd's headergen and ddoc to use RHS  
> qualifiers)
> - help Brian to get dfix up and running  
> (https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix/issues/1)
>
> Then we might revisit the topic in 6 month and see whether we have  
> better arguments now.

+1

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