Property discussion wrap-up

Zach the Mystic reachBUTMINUSTHISzach at gOOGLYmail.com
Tue Jan 29 21:34:25 PST 2013


On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 05:30:47 UTC, Zach the Mystic 
wrote:
>>> I'm sorry for missing your point. I'm trying to suggest 
>>> advanced language features without even knowing some of the 
>>> basics. I ask you to bear with me.
>>
>> Wait, hold on there! This says otherwise: 
>> http://dlang.org/struct.html
>>
>> So what's up? Who's wrong!?
>
> Okay, so now I'm really foolish! I think my ORIGINAL response, 
> to use "outer", would actually make a lot of sense here! 
> outer.outer.outer... ad infinitum. Not only, but when the 
> struct has no data of its own, the compiler silently eliminates 
> the pointer in question.

Or just your basic "no shadowing variables" rule to simplify, 
simplify... I can totally dig that.


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