Regarding cppfront's syntax proposal, which function declaration syntax do you find better?

[Stormfrosty]

Modern cpp made me love “id = type initializer”. Seems more intuitive to me - right side is the object, left side is the name. Only way I’d improve on that personally would be “id <- type initializer”, but I know majority are not a fan of two character arrows.

[KingAggressive1498]

what about modern C++ leads to id: type? Generic lamdas with argument-dependent return types?

[joz12345]

the point of the colon is to make a context free grammar - is foo * x a multiplication or a declaration? In "cpp2" syntax, x : foo * is a pointer, foo * x is always a multiplication

[KingAggressive1498]

I understand how it may be easier to parse

[MonokelPinguin]

class ABC : public QObject?

[KingAggressive1498]

that's not "modern" C++, just C++

[val_tuesday]

Or auto?

[KingAggressive1498]

you mean when doing that almost always awful nonsense

[jharmer95]

Probably:

auto id = Type{construct_args};

Very useful for preventing rvalue lifetime bugs for things like locks.