struct on heap with std.experimental.allocator

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 15:43:34 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 15:39:59 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> My sense is that putting it on the GC heap gives the struct 
>> reference semantics.
>
> It doesn't matter what heap it is on, you are just using a 
> pointer here.
>
> Struct pointers in D will automatically dereference with a.x, 
> so no need for the * there (in most cases), and assigning it to 
> another pointer of course still points to the same object, so 
> it will affect both.
>
> If you want a copy, you can use a special method to allocate a 
> new one or use auto a = *b; which will copy it to the stack.

Thanks for the reply!