What if D would require * for reference types?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-01-18 10:50:58 -0500, Trass3r <un at known.com> said:

> Using * would heavily confuse people coming from C.
> I like the way it is now, class being reference and struct a value type.

I don't follow this reasoning. C has pointers. D has pointers and 
reference types (objects). If you remove reference types from D, D will 
have only pointers, for which C folks are already familiar with. How is 
that confusing to people with a C background?

If your case was that it'd be confusing to people coming from Java, 
then I'd understand better, as Java has reference types and no 
pointers. Or people with a C# background, since C# has both pointers 
and reference types. But C?

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