I close BIP27. I won't be pursuing BIPs anymore

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Tue Oct 18 06:36:42 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 09:50:35 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 06:30:15 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 02:54:08 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>> I just want to be able to pass an rvalue to a function that 
>>> receives a
>>> const ref... that's why I came to this forum in the first 
>>> place like,
>>> 7 years ago. 7 years later... still can't.
>>
>> I recently wrote a PR for p0nce D idioms, which shows how you 
>> can do that
>> https://github.com/p0nce/d-idioms/pull/119
>
> there is a huge difference between "i can hack around it" and 
> "i can do it".

True. ;) It's like the static-array-without-length-and-gc hack. 
You can do it with language constructs but it's inconvenient. So 
it's up to Walter and Andrei to decide if this inconvenience is 
bearable or not.


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