On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 14:55:30 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Namespace:

Shouldn't we fix this? Most of the Newcomer are confused with the fact,

Take a look in bugzilla. I opened an enhancement request to fix this situation, but Walter has closed it down. The rationale is to keep uniform the way D manages tags like const, immutable, etc.

I don't agree with him in this case: I agree that uniformity is good, but breaking symmetry is acceptable when it just produces an error and when it helps avoid a common mistake.

If you have strong desires about fixing this, then I suggest you to open a new thread about it in the main D newsgroup. I have already fought this battle and I lost. (And I think this time Jonathan was on my side).

Bye,
bearophile

I have to write "const (ReturnType)" and "ref ReturnType" ... very symetric. But I think that Walter thinks that this is the best idea, and of course better than that what C++ and other languages do​​. So what should I waste my time with "war" with my limited english knowledge ? ;)
But thank you, that you tried it.

Maybe this is something for Romulus... :)

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