[dmd-beta] rvalue references

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 20:00:33 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 4/12/12, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> > Which I would have expected to be illegal, but for some bizarre reason,
> > the
> > compiler allows it.
> > 
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7854
> 
> Without that ability, or without the ability to use pointers to
> references (which currently works), writing wrapper code to C/C++
> libraries is going to be difficult.

Why do you need more than just normal pointers? Because of this proposal 
making taking the address of a ref illegal? If anything, I think that the need 
to be able to pass the address of refs to C functions is a good example of why 
@system code should still be able to take the address of refs.

- Jonathan M Davis