On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 16:26:30 UTC, Rob T wrote:
The proposal therefore seems to be about extending D to always
perform attribute inference along with type inference unless
the attributes are explicitly specified.
The question I have is if the proposal wants to extend the
meaning of the "auto' keyword so that it will be required in
order for attribute inference to take place, but that indeed
does confuse things because we're using the same keyword for
two completely two different purposes, and it clashes with the
use of auto in some cases.
-rt
This is a very good description of the change.
I don't think auto should be made specific to attribute
inference. So I think the discussion should consider:
const foo()//...
would that be something that should also be a attribute
inference. I think I'm still ok with that as it is still
requesting inference. Note that you can not specify an inferred
const return type. That is this makes a the function const (not
valid as a free form function), and not the return type.
