DMD OSX / Segfault 11

[Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 2016-02-02 19:03:04 +0000, anonymous said:

> This isn't valid D code at all, which makes it unnecessarily hard to 
> understand what you mean.

Well, it should of course be:

BaseOperator: Value {
}

> A Value* is a pointer to a class reference. Unless you're doing 
> something really funky with the pointer, casting it to a class type 
> doesn't make sense.
> 
> Casting between class types that have an inheritance relation, like 
> Value and BaseOperator, does make sense (upcat/downcast).

Yes, that's what I need.

> If anything, you should be casting between Value* and BaseOperator* 
> (both pointer types) if you want to do something with pointers.

I tried this, but that doesn't work either.

> But you very seldom need pointers to class references. Just return 
> Value from get, and cast to BaseOperator.

But am I not getting a copy then? I want to avoid copying objects as 
much as possible.

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