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

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d]

V Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:50:44 +0200
Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> napsáno:

> 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?

Yes (but I am ok with that)

> Do you think it makes your code better or worse?

Definitely better

> Is this just a pointless style change?

No

> Anything else?

Merge this ASAP, please :)