Pointer to variables in D

[Era Scarecrow]

On Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 05:16:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Besides, D's auto-deferencing semantics on  pointers
> makes the difference barely noticeable anyway. Pointers 
> auto-deference when using '.' member notation, for example. Once
> in a while  you have to explicitly dereference a pointer or 
> take an address, but those are very rare.

  I was noticing that. Thankfully in the case where I'm using it, 
I have maybe 4 dereferences, total, and likely most aren't needed 
if I go through them again. To paraphrase Andrei (from memory): 
'D is the only language that consistently does the right thing 
(most of the time)'

  Perhaps pointers can be considered 'finer control' in some cases 
with auto-dereference. The more the language changes and gets 
better, the more and more I want to see it become more popular.


  Although not directly related, I'm finding it funny how C++ is 
finally catching up on some of the features D has; But will 
always fall short (auto, lambdas, etc; and heavy discourage of 
using delete now)