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First Draft: Primary Type Syntax
April 25
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https://github.com/Bolpat/DIPs/blob/a872d3b5602a45d1767d5acb962ba24becaa26ce/DIPs/DIP-2NNN-QFS.md

Abstract
The goal of this proposal is that every type construction expressible by D’s type system also has a representation as a sequence of D tokens. The type constructs that lack this are function pointer and delegate types that return by reference and/or have a non-trivial linkage.

April 28
Gravatar of Richard (Rikki) Andrew CattermolePosted by Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole
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It took me a couple of days but I did get the essence of what the grammar changes allow.

Although I am unconvinced that the current write up reflects the changes in an explainable way.

I do like that what you are trying to do is make function and delegate pointers being able to be declared in line to a type fully.
This is an issue that I certainly think that needs solving.
June 04
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On Saturday, 27 April 2024 at 21:24:17 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:

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It took me a couple of days but I did get the essence of what the grammar changes allow.

I updated the draft.

The proposed grammar is now easier. A lot easier.

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Although I am unconvinced that the current write up reflects the changes in an explainable way.

I’ll happily take in suggestions to improve the writing.

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I do like that what you are trying to do is make function and delegate pointers being able to be declared in line to a type fully.
This is an issue that I certainly think that needs solving.

It absolutely needs solving. The fact that you can’t Ctrl+C Ctrl+V every type from an error message into your code and it Just Works is embarrassing.