On Friday, 15 April 2016 at 12:54:11 UTC, ixid wrote:
On Friday, 15 April 2016 at 03:10:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
We want Phobos to be beautiful, a prime example of good D
code. Admittedly, it also needs to be very general and
efficient, which sometimes gets in the way. But we cannot
afford an accumulation of mad tricks to obscure the large
design.
Andrei
Why didn't we go with all functions being able to infer const,
pure etc rather than just templates?
The problem is essentially untractable when there are loops in
the call graph.
That being said, it would make sense to do it for auto functions.