On Thursday, 10 February 2022 at 23:21:50 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Thursday, 10 February 2022 at 20:34:29 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 2/10/2022 12:06 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
I think an *immediate* improvement we could make to ease
people's life is to make `auto` peel the outermost qualifier
level inside functions.
So that:
```D
const int* ptr;
auto p2 = ptr;
static assert(is(typeof(p2) == const(int)*));
```
I really can't think of any downside to it, only upsides:
- It is still predictable / consistent;
- It *might* reduce the number of template instantiations in
some cases;
- It just flows more naturally... If you want full constness,
there's still `const`;
It sounds sensible to me.
Didn't Scott Meyers cover exactly this in his "the last thing D
needs" talk? It seems like a really bad idea.
Well D has already taken the piss on that talk a long time ago.
No offense to D overall, and I still love it.
