preparing for const, final, and invariant
Manfred Nowak
svv1999 at hotmail.com
Thu May 17 19:01:35 PDT 2007
Walter Bright wrote
> scope - the function will not keep a reference to the parameter's
> data that will persist beyond the scope of the function
> g = a; // error, a is scope
In this example the function assigns to a variable living outside of
the scope of the function. Therefore the function does not keep that
reference itself---and that rule should not fire.
In addition: if the rule's wording is changed to match that example,
then it becomes unclear, whether `writefln( &a)' is allowed because
`writefln' might store that reference somewhere---especially via OS in
a file, which might be read in later by the calling process.
In case of disallowance that rule would disallow printing too.
-manfred
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