still confused about call by reference

[Bill Baxter]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Nathan Reed" <nathaniel.reed at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:fg40ac$2fuo$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what D's 'ref' parameter-storage class is 
>> for, since AFAICT all the uses of pass-by-reference are covered by in, 
>> out, and inout.
> 
> 'ref' is an alias of 'inout' at least for the time being.  It was introduced 
> for forwards compatibility, as it seems likely that we will be getting 
> reference returns, and returning an 'inout' doesn't really make much sense. 

Also 'const inout' as a parameter doesn't make much sense either.

--bb