Make const, immutable, inout, and shared illegal as function attributes on the left-hand side of a function
deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 9 02:36:54 PDT 2014
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.
>
> So instead of
> const int foo();
> you'd should write
> int foo() const;
>
> 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();`
>
> Would this affect your code?
> Do you think it makes your code better or worse?
> Is this just a pointless style change?
> Anything else?
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4043
Yes, yes, yes YES ! YYYEEEEEESSSSSS !
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