Fixing D's Properties
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Fri Aug 17 13:44:27 PDT 2007
Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Chad J wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This post is a bit lengthy. So assuming you've read even part of
>>>> it, thank you for your time.
>>>
>>> All good points. I'd like properties in D to address them all
>>> somehow. The 'ref' keyword in 2.0 solves some of the issues, but not
>>> others. If doing so requires a special syntax then I'm all for it.
>>
>> What issues does ref fix? You can't return a ref even in 2.0, AFAIK.
>
> Oh. I assume this is a planned feature then?
I hope so. That would be great.
> Otherwise I see little
> reason to change "inout" to "ref."
I thought the reason was more to do with const. Given a const object
passed by reference, calling it 'inout' doesn't make much sense.
--bb
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