On Sunday, 8 September 2013 at 04:47:04 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Saturday, September 07, 2013 10:00:05 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 confess that I really don't like this idea. I think that the
separation of
declarations and definitions is a serious downside of C++ and
that it
negatively impacts code maintenence. And from the recent
discussion on this,
it's clear that quite a few people agree with me.
However, at the same time, there are some folks (like Manu) who
really prefer
to separate the declaration and definitions so that they can
just see the
signatures for an entire class' functions at once without
seeing any
definitions. Personally, I don't think that that's a big deal
and that it's far
better to just use generated documentation for that, but
clearly there's not a
consensus on that.
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- Jonathan M Davis
I completely agree with Jonathan!
This will only produce more code which will lead to more bugs and
more maintenance.
