tail const

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On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 03:17:24 -0800
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> Various syntaxes have been proposed in the past. Syntax isn't really the issue. 
> It's pretty easy to come up with one. I think that out of the ones I've seen, 
> the I liked the best was the one proposed by Michel Fortin:
> 
> >I proposed the following a while ago. First allow the class reference
> > 
> > to (optionally) be made explicit:
> >         C a;     // mutable reference to mutable class
> >         C ref b; // mutable reference to mutable class
> > 
> > And now you can apply tail-const to it:
> >         const(C)ref c;  // mutable reference to const class
> >         const(C ref) d; // const reference to const class
> >         const(C) e;     // const reference to const class  

This is the nicest proposal, imo as well.
Is "ref" used here only because "C * b" would mean double indirection?


Denis
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