A Refcounted Array Type

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 15:51:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/23/15 6:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 2/23/2015 5:41 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>>> On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 22:15:54 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>>    ref E opIndex(size_t i) return // here's the magic
>>>
>>> exactly what is this doing? I don't see this explained in 
>>> DIP25 at all.
>>
>> The 'this' is passed by reference. So the 'return' is really 
>> 'return ref
>> this', the rest is explained by DIP25.
>
> We should amend DIP25 to explain that "this" is handled like a 
> parameter. -- Andrei

Note that I'm not surprised by that behavior (this is indeed ref 
for struct). But this is not ref for classes, which will defeat 
DIP25.