DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2013-02-05, 23:46, Max Samukha wrote:

> On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 18:33:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>>
>> Walter and I reviewed the discussion and had a long talk. We are very  
>> seriously considering banning the use of & against a ref result from a  
>> function
>
> Please, no.
>
> ref T foo();
>
> extern(C) void bar(T*);
>
> bar(&foo()); // how?


     @system T* addressOf(T)(ref T obj)
     {
         static T* id(T* p) { return p; }
         auto idr = cast(T* function(ref T)) id;
         return idr(obj);
     }

     bar(addressOf(foo()); // Like this

It's right there in his post.

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Simen