Code security: "auto" / Reason for errors
Ozan via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Mar 2 11:42:02 PST 2016
Hi
I despair of "auto var1 = var2"for arrays. Isn't it a open door
for errors. Example
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
int[] a;
foreach(i; 0..10) a ~= i;
auto b = a; // correct dlang coding: auto b = a.dup;
a[2] = 1;
b[2] = 5; // Overwrites assignment before
writeln(a);
writeln(b); // Always a == b but developer would like to have (a
!= b)
}
The behaviour is different to other non-container datatypes.
So in a first view, it looks like a data copy but it's only a
pointer copy.
Regards, Ozan
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