RFC: naming for FrontTransversal and Transversal ranges

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Apr 30 12:21:52 PDT 2009


Robert Jacques wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:40:42 -0400, Rainer Deyke <rainerd at eldwood.com> 
> wrote:
>> In addition, there's this: suppose you have a struct containing a
>> (mutable) array.  When you make a copy of that struct, you will almost
>> always want to make a copy of the contained array.  Therefore value
>> semantics should be the default, because it simplifies the most common
>> use case.
> 
> That's what struct ctors/dtors/opAssign are for. Personally, I think 
> letting the struct designer decide the behaviour is better.

The problem is what to do for the containers in Phobos.

Andrei



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