On Thu, 08 May 2014 09:30:38 +0000 bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis: > > > Unfortunately, making this consistent by doing something like > > enforcing that > > all function attributes go on the right would then be > > inconsistent with other > > languages with regards to the attributes that they have which > > go on the left, > > This is a job for a Lint. like DScanner :-) Sure, that could point out that putting const or the left is bug-prone and warn you that you should change it, but while it's not really possible to have a fully consistent design with regards to function attributes, I still think that allowing const on the left is simply a bad design decision. A linter is then just a way to help you work around that bad design decision. - Jonathan M Davis
