`const ref T` or `ref const T`?

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 15/08/2024 9:05 PM, IchorDev wrote:
> Yeah, I feel you. When I first started writing in D I’d also use `const 
> ref`, but I agree that interleaving the storage class and the type is 
> not right. I’m not alone in having started with `const ref`, and then 
> having moved to using `ref const` as I understood the language better.
> I think part of the reason some gravitate to `const ref` because of 
> ignorance when coming from C++, but I never used C++ because I was aware 
> of its reputation. Instead, I found the ordering to violate English 
> adjective ordering. `ref const T` sounds wrong in the same way as ‘red 
> big balloon’. In English you can have a ‘constant reference integer’ but 
> not a ‘reference constant integer’; it sounds like an imperative 
> instruction.

+1

Perhaps not an error in practice, but a warning is certainly warranted 
as it shows a lack of understanding in the language.