(git HEAD) std.datetime spewing deprecation messages

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:42:29 -0400, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 22:06:02 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 08:49:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via  
>> Digitalmars-d
>>>    long days;
>>>    int seconds;
>>>    short msecs;
>>>    d.split!("days", "seconds", "msecs")(&days, &seconds, &msecs);
>>
>> Please don't use pass-by-pointer in D APIs. It makes it a real  
>> *nightmare* to ever use the code in a safe context. Besides, we have  
>> ref. The only arguments "for" pass by pointer afaik are:
>> - retain existing/C api (1)
>> - allow null pointers   (2)
>>
>> (1) is not applicable, I think.
>> (2) would only make sense if split did not have a template parameter,  
>> and took "all" arguments, and only filled the non-null ones.
>>
>> So, please make these pass by ref.
>
> Even better than ref would be out which guarantees that the input  
> parameter values do not affect the function.

I think that would be 'out'

-Steve