On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 13:49:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
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3. Parameter names need not match.
This seems bad. What's the rationale for this? (One perhaps
acceptable solution is to put no parameter names in the
signature inside the class).
I am sure there is a good reason for having no parameter names
in a declaration, but to me this doesn't make much sense.
If people want separate declaration/definition so that they can
get an idea of what a class does, then for non-trivial functions
if the variable names are omitted then your more or less have
to look at the definition anyway.
I must admit whenever I come across such declarations in code I
am reading I always find them kind of irritating.
Apart from functions with say variadic parameter lists, is this
really all that useful?
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The D compiler could be modified a bit to generate a bare bones
documentation even with not even a comment written in the code.
Bye,
bearophile
I agree on this last point.
