DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/5/13 3:08 PM, TommiT wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 18:33:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> [..]
>> Walter and I reviewed the discussion and had a long talk. We are very
>> seriously considering banning the use of & against a ref result from a
>> function (and actually ref parameters and even struct members in @safe
>> code). [..]
>
> Did you consider using Rust's idea of 'Named lifetimes' in order to make
> ref parameters memory-safe. I haven't given much thought to it, but
> since Rust's borrowed pointers are effectively isomorphic to D's ref
> variables, it should work. Here's a Rust borrowed pointer tutorial:
> http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.html

Thanks, I'll give that a read. We're very careful at this point about 
spending much "complexity budget" (as a friend calls it) on new features.

Andrei