Attribute inference for auto functions?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/19/2013 11:08 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 00:03:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> A function foo:
>>
>> extern(C) int function()pure foo() { return null; }
>>
>
> That is not it as foo is extern(C).

That is correct. I was thinking about the pure. The extern(C) can be done in a 
two step process, as Timon showed.


> In general we lack a mechanism to choose what an attribute bind to.

No, we don't. The attribute binds to the declaration.

BTW, in C++ also you gotta do the extern "C" as a two step process to attach it 
to a function type.