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

[Namespace via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 17:51:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 13:36:42 Namespace via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Andrei decided ages ago that he didn't think that having const 
> ref take rvalues was a good idea and that he doesn't think that 
> it's a big deal. I don't recall whether Walter has said much on 
> the issue, but AFAIK, he hasn't said anything to contradict 
> that, and Andrei has been very vocal about how rvalue 
> references were a horrible mistake in C++ and that he doesn't 
> want to see anything of the sort in D. auto ref parameters 
> solve the problem on some level, and it seems that that's the 
> closest you're going to get to getting rvalue references in the 
> language. I think that it's pretty clear at this point that 
> it's not very likely that anyone is going to change Andrei's 
> mind on this one.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Yep. Therefore my little hack. It works and it isn't such a big 
inconvenience.