What's this? (Was: DMD 1.028 and 2.012 releases)

[Aarti_pl]

Walter Bright pisze:
> Aarti_pl wrote:
>> Did you notice this example in docs?
>> (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/struct.html#AssignOverload)
>>
>>
>> S* opAssign(S s)
>> {   S tmp <== *this; // bitcopy *this into tmp
>>     *this <== s;     // bitcopy s into *this
>>     tmp.~this();     // call destructor on tmp
>>     return this;
>> }
>>
>> It seems to be something new in D 2.012. Does it work? How?
> 
> It's pseudo-code. There is no <== operator nor .~this() in D. I probably 
> made a mistake in presenting it this way, but I was trying to show what 
> was going on.
> 
> The comments explain what is happening.

Yes, such a pseudo-code should probably be avoided.

I thought that there was silently introduced special copy operator.
... the one that would disambiguate ref copying from object copying for 
example :-)

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)