D 1.076 and 2.061 release

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jan 7 17:18:11 PST 2013


On 1/7/2013 3:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:08:58 +0100
> "deadalnix" <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> However, it is just to discover that this do not work :
>>
>> struct Bar {}
>> auto foo(ref Bar bar) {}
>>
>> foo(Bar()); // Now this is an error !
>>
>> I still have code broken all over the place.
>
> IIRC, they tried to include this change in 2.060 (or was it 2.059?),
> but due to the major problems it causes, and the fact that it *does*
> make sense to use a temporary as an lvalue if you don't intend to use
> it again afterwords, there was a big discussion about it on the beta
> list and it was ultimately nixed. I'm disappointed to see that it snuck
> back.
>

Well, fixing the rvalue ref problem is still on the front burner.


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