The best way to store a structure by reference

B.Basile via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 27 03:25:58 PST 2015


On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 08:38:29 UTC, drug wrote:
> I need to store a struct like a reference type. Now I use 
> pointer for this, is it the best D way? This pointer is private 
> and access to it is safe, but it's just unusual for me to see 
> pointers in D code.

One thing: take care when comparing pointer to struct, it'll only 
compare the memory address and never call a custom opEquals for 
example... You have to explicitly compare the dereferenced stuff.


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