On Friday, 15 August 2014 at 17:16:45 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Friday, 15 August 2014 at 17:05:55 UTC, John wrote:
This may be a silly issue, but I recently read the better
practice is to begin with the variable type followed by const
keyword, but that order doesn't work in D. Is that intentional?
int const minWage = 11; //Error: no identifier for declarator
int
//const int minWage = 11; //works
It is intentional, and I think this "best practice" idea doesn't
apply to D in the same was as C/C++. The reason this is an
issue
in C/C++ is because "const char *" is equivalent to "char const
*", but once typedefs and templates enter the picture things
start to get confusing. Since D allows the const qualifier to
use parens to specify what part of the type it applies to, we
don't need to support the C style syntax.
Ok, thanks for reply.
