Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/19/15 2:49 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> On 1/19/15 6:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/19/15 12:51 PM, Alexey T. wrote:
>>> Will be much easier to read Source, if func declarataion begins with
>>> keyword. "def" of "func". e.g.
>>>
>>> func myName(params.....): typeOfResult;
>>> or
>>> func myName(params...) -> typeOfResult;
>>>
>>> easier to read and PARSE. Next D version may allow--with compatability
>>> of old syntad (C like where typeOfResult is 1st id).
>>
>> No. -- Andrei
>
> How do you search for a function definition?
>
> In Ruby I search "def some_name" and I find it. In Go I can probably
> search "func some_name". In Rust, "fn some_name".
>
> Browsing some C code for Ruby I search with regex with "^some_name"
> because they have the convention of writing functions like this:
>
> return_type
> function_name(...) {
> }
>
> It works, but if you stop following that convention you are lost.
>
> So... how do you search for a function definition in D without an IDE?

I abandon D and switch to Ruby. -- Andrei