"Best" way of passing in a big struct to a function?

[Don Clugston]

On 10/10/12 09:12, thedeemon wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 07:28:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Making sure that the aa has been properly initialized before passing
>> it to a function (which would mean giving it at least one value) would
>> make the ref completely unnecessary.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Ah, thanks a lot! This behavior of a fresh AA being null and then
> silently converted to a non-null when being filled confused me.

Yes, it's confusing and annoying.
This is something in the language that we keep talking about fixing, but 
to date it hasn't happened.