DIP69: problem with scope grammar - need a new keyword

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 09:52:02 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 09:46:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I thought I could make this work, but it's a problem. There 
>> are two meanings for scope when attached to a function:
>>
>>    T func() scope;   // the 'this' pointer is 'scope'
>>    scope T func();   // the function returns a 'scope' T
>>
>> I have some ideas, but don't particularly like any of them. 
>> But I don't want to bias things, so what ideas do you guys 
>> have?
>
> I'm arguing for ages that qualifier before the return type 
> qualify the return type, and the one after the implicit 
> argument. I stand by this.

Agreed.