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... :)