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digitalmars.D - Re: We should deprecate C-style declarations

Don Wrote:

 Before TDPL is published, I think we should finally get rid of C-style 
 declarations. Supporting two styles of declarations just causes 
 confusion, and AFAIK it doesn't have any benefits -- for example, it 
 doesn't significantly help in porting code from C. D declarations are 
 just better. And there are bugs such as this one, which seem to require 
 abandoning C declarations:
 
 bug #2392 Parsing ambiguity between function pointer declaration and 
 function call
 
 At the very least, can we make sure that TDPL doesn't commit us to 
 retaining them forever?

Yes, please!
Nov 16 2009