Normalizing Const Syntax.
Janice Caron
caron800 at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 8 23:48:58 PDT 2008
I think it would be enormously wrong for
const int x;
and
const(int) x;
to mean two entirely different things (which I think was part of what
Scott was suggesting). But I do agree with all the rest of it.
So here's something to think about. Consider the following code:
class C
{
const
{
T x;
T f() { ... }
}
}
What would be the most intuitive meaning of f's const. Would it be:
(a) the function expects "this" to be const
(b) the function returns a const(T)
(c) both of the above simultaneously
(d) none of the above
I think (b).
In D2.012, the actual meaning is (a), but pretty much everyone agrees
that's not intuitive.
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