static property without return type

[Peter Alexander]

On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 01:06:22 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/17/13, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:
>> No, if the return type is missing, it is deduced.
>
> What are you talking about? You can't write:
>
> foo() { return 0; }

Timon is right here. The reason you cannot write that is because 
the parser needs the auto crutch. Basically, the parser just 
needs to see at least one "storage class" before the function 
identifier. Note that "storage class" here includes things like 
pure, which isn't really a storage class (see 
http://dlang.org/declaration.html#StorageClass)

Note that you can write:

const foo() { return 0; }

Type is deduced here, but the presence of const means that the 
parser doesn't need any other storage class. auto in D actually 
just means "I don't want to use any other storage class", the 
type deduction is triggered by the lack of return type.