Second Draft: Primary Type Syntax

[IchorDev]

On Thursday, 25 July 2024 at 13:36:23 UTC, Quirin Schroll wrote:
> Thank you. If `extern(C)` is important to you, I’d really, 
> really appreciate help in making it work. Currently, I’m 
> focusing on `ref` to be honest, in particular integrating the 
> `ref` variable support merged yesterday. Some Notes in the DIP 
> outright say: My implementation can *parse* linkages (for the 
> most part), but it *does not apply* them to the 
> function/delegate type. It’s not like my parse.d code just 
> skips linkages. It does assign the seen linkage to the function 
> type, but somewhere further down, that linkage is ignored or 
> gets lost.

I must say, working on dmd is not my strong suit, but in a few 
weeks I might have some spare time to at least attempt to help. 
I’d also like to know whether either of the language maintainers 
look like they are on board with this idea before dedicating too 
much time to an implementation. (Maybe one of us can mention it 
to Walter at this month’s meeting?)