DMD 1.011 release

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Apr 11 14:26:06 PDT 2007


Sean Kelly wrote:
> freeagle wrote:
>> what was wrong with "inout" ?
> 
> Got me.  in, out, and inout are already present in other languages (Ada 
> and CORBA, IIRC), and the names seem internally consistent.  I can't say 
> I understand the reason for a new keyword here.

Because there are uses for reference variables other than function 
parameters. Those look definitely odd being marked as 'inout'.



More information about the Digitalmars-d-announce mailing list