On Friday, 4 May 2012 at 08:46:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, May 04, 2012 11:38:32 Manu wrote:
I try rearranging the syntax to make the first issue stop
complaining:
ref const(Thing) func2() { return gThing; } // this seems to
work now, but
i don't like the inconsistency...
That's thanks to the nonsense that putting const on the
left-hand side of a
member function is legal, making it so that you _must_ use
parens with const
and return types for the const to apply to the return type
rather than the
function.
It's not only legal, sometimes it's required, e.g. if you want
type inference on a const member function.
class Foo
{
auto fun() { ... } //ok
auto fun() const { ... } // error, two storage classes
fun() const { ... } // error, expected storage class before
'foo'
const fun() { ... } // correct!
}
