On 9 Oct 2014 09:55, "Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> 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
You have my full support in this. What we should first focus on it the path of least resistance to making this happen. Preferably sooner rather than later. Iain.
