DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases

0ffh spam at frankhirsch.net
Wed Oct 10 08:34:36 PDT 2007


BLS wrote:
> 0ffh schrieb:
>> Earlier, BLS wrote:
>>> &references ... The Rationales do not say a anything about it The D 
>>> "compared to C" just says ... We don't have it.
>> Yup, and good riddance I say!
>> IMHO even the out/ref keyword is a mistake!
>> (It's also the only mistake of it's kind in Pascal, btw.)
> I do not agree, but this is not the point. The problem is that C++ folks 
> seems to love this feature, and I have to translate it into D (somehow).

With the help of explicit pointers and dereferencing, I can see no trouble
except you'll need a lot of stars... :)

Regards, Frank

ps. btw. plain C doesn't have &refs either



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