If you could make any changes to D, what would they look like?

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On Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 11:41:32 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
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> Well, one idea I heard last week that I don't loathe and 
> despise is that classes are always *explicit* references.
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> class Object {}
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> void foo(Object* o){}
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> That'd be the new syntax for what we have today. But:
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> void foo(Object o) {} // error: cannot declare variable of 
> class value type; the rule is still they're always references
>
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> One of the benefits of this is there's now a place for 
> rebindable:
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> void foo(const(Object)* o) {} // const object, but you can 
> rebind the reference
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>
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> That const ref thing has come up for about as long as D has had 
> const.
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> I don't really think it is worth the hassle but it is 
> interesting in that it solves some old syntax worries.

Just a small question, if you want a raw pointer to your object 
how would that look like. Since Object* is a reference (with 
things going on behind the scene), what is the raw pointer?