any news on const/invariant?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Walter Bright escribió:
> 0ffh wrote:
>> Actually, when it comes to array declaration style, I wouldn't care if 
>> the
>> old style was dropped in D. The new one works fine (for me), and there 
>> are
>> some good arguments for having just OWTDI.
> 
> For new code, there isn't much point to using the C style array 
> declarations. But when you're translating a big chunk of C code, it's a 
> time and bug saver. Converting the array declarations from C style to D 
> style is surprisingly error prone and rather tedious. It cannot be 
> automated with simple string editors.

But it could be automated with a smarter "editor". In fact, I'm willing 
to add an option in Descent to do it if there is interest. The outline 
view already show declarations that way, so it's just a matter of 
"writing down" the code with a simple visitor.

Of course, it still can't be done with simple string editors, so if you 
don't have an IDE keeping the C syntax is still time saver.