On Saturday, 16 August 2014 at 21:42:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Saturday, 16 August 2014 at 18:50:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2014-08-16 01:33, Mike wrote:
Sounds like a worthwhile impromement to me.
Sounds like a breaking change to me. Which will include the
usual complains.
Yes, but it's either that or have people running into this
problem and complaining about it and the bugs that it causes for
years to come. And it's _already_ bad practice to put const,
immutable, inout, or shared on the left-hand side without
parens,
and pretty much everyone has run into the problem at one time or
another when trying to return const from a function and would
know to avoid putting those atributes on the left. So, the vast
majority of code wouldn't be affected. And of course, we'd do it
via deprecation, so it wouldn't immediately break code.
For what it is worth, I can confirm this bit me and a coworker of
mine.
Deprecation of this makes sense. IIRC there's a bunch of C valid
code that are rejected by dmd because the semantic is different.
This seems to be one of those cases.
