peculiarities with char[] and std.string
Kyle K
Kyle_member at pathlink.com
Mon Jun 19 07:11:43 PDT 2006
In article <e76aq8$qsr$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, xs0 says...
>Well, you didn't touch the memory you didn't allocate :) If you had
>
>char[] bob(in char[] str)
>{
> str[0] = 'a';
> return str;
>}
>
>You'd get "aoo:aoo" as output (or a crash, as you can't write into
>constants on some platforms)
Ah ok, that makes sense. So using 'in' with arrays and aggregate types will
always still give you a reference? I assume with primitives the semantics remain
pass-by-value, such that foo(in int b) will never modify the caller's data?
>
>Hope that helped :)
It did, thanks a lot! :D
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