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'.
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