Attribute inference for private functions

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Daniel Nielsen reported this on 2014-10-02T03:22:56Z

Transferred from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13567

CC List

• Walter Bright (@WalterBright)
• Martin Nowak (@MartinNowak)
• ZombineDev

Description

Previously attribute inference was considered for all auto functions, but there was no consensus reached.

Using attribute inference for private functions avoids all previously raised concerns except "slows down compilation".

Walter:
"Please file as an enhancement request.

The more attribute inference we can do, the better."

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hsteoh commented on 2014-10-02T03:38:30Z

I agree with this. Private functions don't suffer from the same objections raised against adding inference to auto functions, so perhaps this is the way to go to increase the scope of attribute inference in D.

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bugzilla (@WalterBright) commented on 2015-08-12T03:15:06Z

Example:

  private void bar() { }

  void foo() @safe {
    bar();
  }

should work.

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petar.p.kirov commented on 2015-08-12T09:47:35Z

Walter, so you agree that private functions should get attribute inference, like auto retrning functions?

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code (@MartinNowak) commented on 2015-08-12T13:14:20Z

It would be a good step forward to less attribute clutter.

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petar.p.kirov commented on 2015-08-13T07:14:00Z

Yes, it would definitely be a step in the right direction. A lot more code will benefit from this because private functions are more common than auto-returning and also people tend to neglect putting attributes on private functions more than on public ones.

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petar.p.kirov commented on 2017-07-01T11:43:48Z

*** Issue 16138 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***