On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 17:52:30 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I think leaving this to a lint tool basically is as good and
effective as doing nothing. It's not a compromise at all.
I agree. The only people who run lint tools are established users
(because they are the only ones who even know they exist).
Established users are already well aware of how to use function
attributes correctly (and for the most part did left-hand
attributes in old code written before the informal convention
came about).
left-hand const is primarily a problem for new users of the
language (particularly the large amount coming from C++). These
users aren't running linters, they are still just trying to get
basic projects off the ground. This issue is one of the top
things I see new users have problems with in the D IRC channel.
You can find new users having problems with it on Stack Overflow
too.
