Annotation of functions

[rikki cattermole]

On 20/02/2018 12:15 PM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> I've noticed that Go and Rust annotate functions.
> 
> func (in go)
> fn (in rust)
> 
> I was kind of wondering why they made that choice, given compilers in 
> many languages do not.
> 
> Would this be a useful feature in D?
> 
> Everything else seems to have an annotation (e.g structs, classes.) So 
> why not functions?
> 
> What are people's thoughts about it?
> 
> My first thought is to make it an optional annotation, for the benefit 
> of developing source code analysis tools that can 'more easily' find 
> functions in source code (i.e. The D compiler can just strip it off and 
> do nothing with it.).  That way programmers that see no benefit in it, 
> don't have to deal with it.

You need a fully implemented frontend to get anything proper in terms of 
parsing for D.
We're not talking about syntax highlighting here.

So the point is moot.