Things that make writing a clean binding system more difficult

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On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 20:16:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Well, if we decided to make parens with ref legal, then we 
> could make it work. e.g.
>
> ref(int) function(int, int) functionPointer;
>
> Now, I don't know of any other case where you'd actually use 
> parens with ref if it were legal, but it would solve this 
> particular case if we wanted to provide a way around the 
> ambiguity.

I had an idea of putting function attributes between return type 
and function name:
int ref function(int, int)