UFCS functions with both pointers and refs

[Dave P.]

On Wednesday, 16 December 2020 at 03:50:07 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 19:02:34 UTC, Dave P. wrote:
>> On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 18:44:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 18:31:54 UTC, Dave P. wrote:
>>> [...]
>
> Based on you requirement to use pointers, I assume you're doing 
> this for a type you get from a C library. I did the same thing 
> for the SDL_Rect type when working with SDL. All I did was 
> implement a pointer version of my "extension" functions. When I 
> had an instance and not a pointer, I took its address when I 
> called the function. If that's inconvenient (lots of generic 
> code, perhaps), you can always have the pointer version forward 
> to the ref version, but it seems to me like just having the one 
> version is the way to go most of the time.

Yeah, in this case the C library is the rest of my program :). I 
am porting
an application I had written in C to D in betterC mode piece by 
piece and there’s
a good number of functions where it’d be convenient to call them 
via UFCs.

Thanks for answering my questions!