Is @safe still a work-in-progress?
Nicholas Wilson
iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 22 03:58:42 UTC 2018
On Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 14:31:02 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> The problem is that the code we write doesn't deal directly
> with pointers - see the recent confusion in this forum over
> where `scope` on the left applies to the `this` pointer or the
> one returned by the member function.
>
> Kagamin just told me I needed to use `return` instead of
> `scope` to get things to work and I'm still not sure why.
The way I think about it is if you have a function that takes a
pointer, any pointer, and either returns it or a pointer derived
from it (dereferencing or indexing) that argument must be marked
`return`. In your case it was a pointer derived from `this` so
`return` must be applied to `this`.
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