Developing a plan for D2.0: Getting everything on the table

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el 27 de julio a las 07:59 me escribiste:
> >For example, should the author of a container library prefer classes or 
> >structs?
> 
> I've been struggling with this forever. I don't know. I don't even know
> whether reference or value semantics are best for containers. I don't
> know whether abstract container interfaces and container-independent
> code are a net win; experience with STL seems to say "don't" and
> experience with Java seems to say "ho-hum".

About values vs. reference semantics, I think reference is the best.
Containers usually are big, and you don't want to copy them arround.
I find myself using lots of references to pass containers arround in C++
and almost never use the copy() method of Python containers, so based on
*my* experience, I'd say that reference as the default is the best
approach.

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