auto ref is on the docket

Daniel N via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 22 14:30:45 PDT 2015


On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 20:56:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> won't mutate the argument, but if you allow it with ref in 
> general, then you stand no chance of being able to look at a 
> function signature and deduce whether the function intends to 
> mutate an argument or not.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

It's no worse than auto ref. It's only by convention that auto 
ref functions doesn't mutate, at least I follow that convention, 
but when looking at someone else's function, all bets are off.



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