D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 18:36:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Thursday, January 03, 2013 17:59:22 deadalnix wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 16:43:06 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> > deadalnix:
>> >> I still have code broken all over the place.
>> > 
>> > D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted out and fixed,
>> > but this still causes some breakage in user code. As more
>> > people use D2, issues are found, discussed and fixed, the
>> > breakages will get more and more uncommon.
>> 
>> Is this breakage intended ? To me it doesn't make sense, the
>> generated code is :
>> 
>> (Bar bar = Bar.init; , bar).this()
>
> It is most definitely intended. ref requires an lvalue. A 
> struct literal is a
> temporary and therefore should be an rvalue, not an lvalue.
>

struct Bar {
	uint i;

	this(uint foo) {
		import std.stdio;
		writeln(&this);
	}
}

void main() {
	Bar(0);
}

> Before, you had the stupid situation of
>
> foo(Bar()); //compiles
> foo(funcWhichReturnsBar()); //fails to compile
>
> Both are dealing with temporaries, so both should be rvalues, 
> and neither
> should compile. You need an actual variable or other 
> non-temporary memory
> location (e.g. dereferenced pointer) if you want to pass an 
> argument to a ref
> function. The previous behavior was broken and should have been 
> fixed ages ago.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

The compiler actually create this storage to pass it to the 
constructor. Why can't it pass it to something else ?