Release D 2.094.0
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jared771 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 14:36:18 UTC 2020
On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 09:49:36 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
> Author here. The most complete way to know would be to read the
> changelog: https://dlang.org/changelog/2.094.0.html#preview-in
> The TL;DR is that, in addition to `const scope`, `in` now
> automatically behaves as `ref` when "it makes sense" such as
> large value types or presence of destructors / postblit (more
> details in the changelog!) and will accept rvalues, unlike
> other ref parameters.
Why was this added when we already have `auto ref`? Yes, it makes
the function a template, but if `in` can automatically choose
whether the variable is ref or not, then auto ref could easily do
the same.
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