pass-by-ref semantics for structs (was Deque impl.)

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:21:04 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 1/31/13 10:18 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:12:53 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> As far as I can tell classes have the same problem.
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> void foo(someclass aa, int x, int y)
>> {
>> aa[x] = y;
>> }
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> someclass aa;
>> foo(aa, 1, 2); // segfault
>> ...
>> }
>
> We could easily arrange things to segfault just the same with a  
> struct-based implementation.

So you want to make a struct that acts just like a class?  I'm not seeing  
the point.

-Steve