Attribute inference for auto functions?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/17/2013 6:28 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Points raised in the thread show that people need in general to be able to
> annotate specifically the return type or whatever, and this is rather difficult
> with the current state of thing (and also it seems quite hard to fix).

To annotate the return type specifically with, say, const:

     const(T) foo();

And in fact const with parens works as a general type constructor:

     const(T)* foo();  // return mutable pointer to const T

const without parens applies to the declaration.