DIP25 draft available for destruction

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/6/13 12:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/6/13 12:33 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Am 06.02.2013 08:38, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>> Probably it'll need a fair amount of tweaking. Anyhow it's in
>>> destroyable form.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> What I don't get is, why is it better to have a function
>> "addressOf(value)" that does exactly the same as &value? Expect that it
>> is more text to type? Why is addressOf(value) more explicit then &value?
>
> A good part of that is the recent debate on what &func should do (take
> the address of the function vs. the address of its result). With the
> unsafe meaning out of the way, only the safe one is eligible.

Added a dedicated section to the DIP: http://goo.gl/xkIXb

Andrei