change 'this' pointer for structs to reference type

Robert Fraser fraserofthenight at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 07:54:03 PST 2008


Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei suggested this change, and I think it is a great idea. D ought to 
> be moving away from pointers for routine work, and this would make a lot 
> of sense.
> 
> It would entail some changes to user code, mostly when dealing with the 
> opCmp and opEquals member functions. The function signatures for them 
> would be changed to opCmp(ref const S).

While we're at it, let's have "in" return a reference instead of a 
pointer for AAs.



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