default values for inout parameters

[Charlie]

Yea I was trying to abuse it, you're right it shouldn't work with 
default parameters, what I was really trying to do was something like

char [] x = char[]

Charlie

BCS wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
>> The following fails with : Error: "" is not an lvalue
>>
>> void f( inout char [] x = "" ){ }
>>
>> void main ()
>> {
>>   f();
>> }
>>
>>
>> Why is this not allowed ?
> 
> What would this do?
> 
> void f( inout char [] x = "" )
> {
>     x = "world";
> }
> 
> It amounts to "take a literal reference to a static string and set it to 
> something else". It doesn't really have a meaning.
> 
> You could try shelling it by hand.
> 
> void f() { char[] x = null; f(x);}