Incorporating D
Szymon
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Fri Jan 25 14:32:19 PST 2013
Ah, perfectly clear now. Thanks guys. At one point I though maybe
it was about move semantics but it indeed about something much
more fundamental. And indeed surprising coming from C++.
On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 22:29:44 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 22:22:44 UTC, Szymon wrote:
>> So structs in D are always passed by-value? That is
>> unfortunate...
>
> It has both pointers and ref but they both only work with
> lvalues, regardless of const:
>
> struct S {}
>
> void test(const ref S s) {}
> void test2(const S* s) {}
>
> S getS() { return S(); }
>
> void main() {
> S s;
> test(s); // ok
> test2(&s); // ok
> test(getS()); // not ok (line 12)
> test2(&getS()); // not ok (line 13)
> }
>
> test.d(12): Error: function test.test (ref const(S) s) is not
> callable using argument types (S)
> test.d(12): Error: getS() is not an lvalue
> test.d(13): Error: getS() is not an lvalue
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