Re: Make const, immutable, inout, and shared illegal as function attributes on the left-hand side of a function

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/9/14 4:50 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
Kenji just proposed a slightly controversial pull request so I want to
reach out for more people to discuss it's tradeoffs.
It's about deprecating function qualifiers on the left hand side of a
function.
So instead of
     const int foo();
you'd should write
     int foo() const;

Then at some future point we could apply the left hand side qualifiers
to the return type, e.g. `const int foo();` == `const(int) foo();`

Would this affect your code?
Do you think it makes your code better or worse?
Is this just a pointless style change?
Anything else?

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4043

First, I'm all for the change. If it affects my code, I don't care, I'll 
fix it.

Just one point to make, this will still work, right?:

const {
   int foo();
}

const:
   int foo();

I'm not sure I agree with the future plan to allow const on the lhs to 
apply to the return type, but we can decide that in the future.

-Steve