Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:36:36 -0500, bearophile
<bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
There are six, seven or more people that wish to do something about
this situation. TDPL is the D2 reference, but few little changes over
its first edition are acceptable if they improve the D language a little.
- Trass3r: asks if the code is ambiguous
- Jonathan M Davis: does't like it and puts const/etc on the right
- Simen kjaeraas thinks it's ambiguous though, and should be
disallowed, or at very least, discouraged.
- Jens Mueller: Preferred style is to write const on the right
- Andrej Mitrovic suggests to use @ but says it clutters up source code.
- I agree with Jonathan M Davis.
What other people think about this situation? Do you want
const/immutable to be required on the right, or do you prefer the
current situation, or do you prefer some other solution?
I wouldn't say that I *prefer* the current solution, but the current
solution is not so bad that I need it changed.
It works fine, despite being confusing. If it wasn't consistent with
the rest of the attributes, I'd say it was in need of changes, but it
fits within the scheme already outlined.
It's a problem for all of the other attributes as well. I wish it were
disallowed for all of them.
Incidentally, putting it afterwards always works. Putting it before
doesn't always work, due to compiler bugs (for example, prefix 'pure'
doesn't work for inner functions).