Make const, immutable, inout, and shared illegal as function attributes on the left-hand side of a function

[francesco cattoglio via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 October 2014 at 08:50:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Kenji just proposed a slightly controversial pull request so I 
> want to reach out for more people to discuss it's tradeoffs.
> It's about deprecating function qualifiers on the left hand 
> side of a function.
I'm all for it

> Then at some future point we could apply the left hand side 
> qualifiers to the return type, e.g. `const int foo();` == 
> `const(int) foo();`
I know it's not happening anytime soon, but I'm against this 
second idea. This will be an extra annoyance when "porting" old D 
code to a new version. Just removing the currently ambiguous 
attribute on the left should be plenty. No need to try to mimic C 
in this regard.