Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/19/15 7:54 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/19/15 2:49 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> On 1/19/15 6:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 1/19/15 12:51 PM, Alexey T. wrote:
>>>> Will be much easier to read Source, if func declarataion begins with
>>>> keyword. "def" of "func". e.g.
>>>>
>>>> func myName(params.....): typeOfResult;
>>>> or
>>>> func myName(params...) -> typeOfResult;
>>>>
>>>> easier to read and PARSE. Next D version may allow--with compatability
>>>> of old syntad (C like where typeOfResult is 1st id).
>>>
>>> No. -- Andrei
>>
>> How do you search for a function definition?
>>
>> In Ruby I search "def some_name" and I find it. In Go I can probably
>> search "func some_name". In Rust, "fn some_name".
>>
>> Browsing some C code for Ruby I search with regex with "^some_name"
>> because they have the convention of writing functions like this:
>>
>> return_type
>> function_name(...) {
>> }
>>
>> It works, but if you stop following that convention you are lost.
>>
>> So... how do you search for a function definition in D without an IDE?
>
> I abandon D and switch to Ruby. -- Andrei

Thanks for the answer.