eating inout dogfood

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:43:15 -0400, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
>
>> struct cursor(T)
>> {
>>     T* node;
>>     void popFront() {node++;}
>>     ... // usual suspects front, empty, etc
>> }
>>
>> This seems like cursor!(inout(V)) might work (V is the element type of  
>> the
>> container) as the return type for inout functions.  However, one of the
>> major requirements of inout is that it correctly cast back to the
>> constancy of the container.
>
> try to return inout(cursor!(Unqual!(V)))

This won't solve the problem.  I need inout to be on V, not on the  
cursor.  Essentially, I need cursor to be tail-inout.

BTW, this assumes V is not const.  I'm not exactly sure how well the  
containers work when V is not mutable.  I'd expect they would fail  
spectacularly :)

-Steve