Type qualifiers - inout error

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:12:49 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Claudiu Verdes:
>
>> What am I doing wrong? TDPL has a very similar example...
>
> I think this TDPL example is not good. And generally inout is not fully  
> implemented in D yet.

Yes, a better example would be:


class A
{
	ref inout(int) val() inout
	{
		return _val;
	}
	private int _val;
}

inout is only relevant if the data type being returned has a reference in  
it, because a value-only type is implicitly castable to any constancy  
(const, immutable, or mutable).

As bearophile says, inout is not properly implemented yet.

-Steve