On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:08:08 +0000 Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I still think that we'd be far better off if all attributes which > could apply to a function's return type were illegal on the > left-hand side of the function. i completely agree. even if this change will break some code, i'm still sure that it should be done. i'm constantly beaten by writing 'const FooBar func()' (ah, pun unintended ;-) and i can't understant why compiler is silent about it, while it can tell me that '1 > 0 must be parenthesized when next to operator &' in 'if (a&1 > 0)'. please, make compiler emit at least warning about 'stray const/immutable/etc'! and then deprecate it, and then make compiler emit error.
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