Am Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:50:44 +0200 schrieb Martin Nowak <[email protected]>:
> 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? > Do you think it makes your code better or worse? > Is this just a pointless style change? > Anything else? > > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4043 I write my function signatures like this now and I'm fine with the change: @safe pure nothrow @nogc [<1] final override @property ref [<2] int foo() shared const [<3] { ... } [1] Attributes that hint the compiler by narrowing down allowed language features. [2] Visibility and behavioral attributes. [3] Modifiers for implicit `this`. -- Marco
