Newbie initial comments on D language - scope

[Walter Bright]

Edward Diener wrote:
> Now that I see where you are going, and you mentioned forwarding in your 
> description above, I though of how boost::shared_ptr does it and I 
> realized that the C++ 'operator ->' is the key. So I immediately looked 
> for the equivalent in D, which would allow this to happen also, which 
> would be an op function for the 'operator .'. But I could not find this 
> operator supported in the D 1.0 docs. My suggestion then, if you are 
> going to make the idea above work, is that you need to support an op 
> function for the 'operator .' and then forwarding into the wrapped 
> object would be simple and automatic no matter what functionality the 
> wrapped object had.

I agree that a method for forwarding is needed to complete the job. I 
plan on working on that after the RAII stuff is working.