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

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On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 22:49:41 UTC, 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?

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