DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:15:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 2/5/13 2:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> I think a cast would be sufficient:
>>
>> cast(int *)(&refparam); // understood that a cast is required
>>
>> To jump through this machinery to turn a reference into a, um...
>> reference, seems like a huge waste of code space and resources.
>
> The whole point was to avoid using operator &.

The mechanism to avoid it seems overly extravagant (and prone to low  
performance).  If you want actually avoid using operator &, then make a  
compiler special function or something.

Also, the use of & can still be hidden inside a function.

-Steve