On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 12:57:52 UTC, anonymous wrote:
It's not a cast. It's the unambiguous notation for a qualified
type. Often you can omit the parentheses. With methods you
cannot. With methods you need the parentheses to let the
compiler
know that you indeed mean the return type to be const, not the
method itself.
Please note that outside a class/struct, this notation :
const T foo()
is meaningless, and before D 2.066 was silently ignored.
Now the compiler will notify you when the error occur, but you
still need to be extra-careful when using const with methods.
