Return by 'ref' problems...

[bearophile]

Jonathan M Davis:

> That's thanks to the nonsense that putting const on the 
> left-hand side of a
> member function is legal, making it so that you _must_ use 
> parens with const
> and return types for the const to apply to the return type 
> rather than the function.

In Phobos there is a closed enhancement request about this. I 
suggest to add to that closed thread all the troubles/bugs we 
find in the forums. Maybe eventually Walter will change his mind 
on this.

Bye,
bearophile