readonly?
Tobias Pankrath
tobias at pankrath.net
Wed Jul 11 03:00:30 PDT 2012
On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 09:49:43 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 08:56:39 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
>> On 07/11/12 09:00, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>>> Bar b = new Bar;
>>> auto b2 = &b; // type of b2 is Bar*
>>>
>>> So does it meen, that a pointer of type Bar* does not point
>>> to the real object?
>>
>> Yeah, unfortunately.
>> Can anybody think of a reason to keep the current (broken)
>> behavior?
>
> Why would it be broken? Bar intrinsically is a reference type,
> so Bar* is a pointer to a reference.
>
> David
The languages conflates reference and instance type for classes.
See here http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/a55ad2b6 . I wouldn't say this
should change but it is a minor inconsistency I just stumbled on.
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