Things that make writing a clean binding system more difficult

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 07:10:30 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> How does it not fix the problem? int function(int,int)ref is 
> the type of a ref-return function.
>

Because storage class binding are already ambiguous and

>> postfix ref is not accepted because it can only apply to the 
>> type I
>> guess.
>
> How does it apply to the type?
>
> This is one more example of design being unprincipled to boot.
>
> Well, it's more or less reasonable save for the parser 
> inconsistencies.