On Thursday, 9 October 2014 at 08:50:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Kenji just proposed a slightly controversial pull request so I
want to reach out for more people to discuss it's tradeoffs.
It's about deprecating function qualifiers on the left hand
side of a function.
So instead of
const int foo();
you'd should write
int foo() const;
Then at some future point we could apply the left hand side
qualifiers to the return type, e.g. `const int foo();` ==
`const(int) foo();`
Would this affect your code?
No. D-Scanner's style checker yells at you when you try to do
this, so I've fixed all my personal code already. These checks
run as part of the CI process at EMSI and the results are
uploaded to our local SonarQube server. We shouldn't have any
uses of the to-be-removed syntax hiding in our code.
Do you think it makes your code better or worse?
Better. Explaining why "const int foo" is "const(int)" and "const
int foo();" is "int" is not something I enjoy doing.
Is this just a pointless style change?
No.
Anything else?
This will be moderately difficult to imlement in dfix.
