Wishlist proposal, documenting fn arg as in or out or mod
Adam D Ruppe
destructionator at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 16:12:35 UTC 2023
On Tuesday, 20 June 2023 at 15:01:17 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> So I propose a new keyword either something like modified or
> mod or rw or input_output. Beauty contest, I don’t care what
> wins. (Shame inout is already taken.)
Fun fact: the reason `inout` is a keyword in D is that this is
what it used to be.
Back on the old days, `inout` meant `ref`. But people kept asking
so it got renamed to ref, and then inout was eventually
reassigned to the const forwarding thing it is now (which was
originally gonna be called `return` but never got implemented,
and now `return` is used to indicate the lifetime of the
parameter is the same as the return value, lolol)
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