transporting qualifier from parameter to the return value

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:18:36 -0500, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Looks like inout won:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/1389
>
> Doesn't look like a very intuitive name though (another enum? :).
>

Better than not having the feature :)

Some notes on the to-be description:

There is no mention that inout variables cannot be changed (they cannot).

In the paragraph describing what inout resolves to on return, if all  
matches are inout, then the return type should be set to inout, not  
const.  This is important for calling inout functions from within inout  
functions.

I'm really excited to finally see this coming to fruition!  Thanks Walter  
and Andrei!

-Steve