<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Yes it does! It's synonymous with inout (D1 inout, not D2 inout). Oodles of code uses ref, including Tango, if you removed ref, that needs to be undone.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>See here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html#new1_011</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>-Steve</span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> Discuss the dmd beta releases for D <dmd-beta@puremagic.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 8, 2012 3:34 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [dmd-beta] D1 1.073 beta<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div>On 08 Feb, 2012,at 10:21 AM, Walter Bright
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I'm looking at this commit:<br>
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<div>Why was "ref" removed?<br>
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D1 doesn't have ref.<br>
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