On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 17:00:08 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Outlining of member functions is the practice of placing the
declaration of a member function in the struct/class/union, and
placing the definition of it at global scope in the module or
even in another module.
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP47
I'm against that.
Reasons:
- Do not change a language without very solid or even urgent need.
- A concise spec (we are going there that, right?) and
reliability is way more important than gadgets or "X has that. We
need that, too!".
- What for? This approach is anyway not the right one. If this is
about readability then ...
... what's the big issue? "I don't like 'class ...{' at the
beginning of my source code and a '}' at the end"?
Because that's what it comes down to.
If this is about readability as in "I want to have a quick and
comfortable look
at my module or class interface" (which is a reasonable desire
and a useful thing) then ...
... the solution is not to change the language but to have a
compiler switch to have the compiler generate a client/interface
view file. (One might discuss what exactly should should go there)
A+ -R
