why doesn't formattedRead take args by ref instead of by pointer?

[Timothee Cour]

ping on this.
Also, same question with std.getopt, which takes by pointer instead of by
ref.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Timothee Cour <thelastmammoth at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> If I change formattedRead's input signature to:
> uint formattedRead(R, Char, S...)(ref R r, const(Char)[] fmt, ref S args)
> and adjusted code accordingly.
>
> It seems to work fine.
>
> see implementation here:
>
> https://github.com/timotheecour/dtools/blob/master/dtools/overrides/format.d#L29
> (just run unittests: rdmd --main -unittest dtools/all.d)
>
> why is std.format. formattedRead taking by pointer instead ?
> could we change that (with proper deprecation), or add that function?
>
>
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