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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/31/13 10:29 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 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.

It has a destructor.

Andrei