A Refcounted Array Type

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/23/15 6:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/23/2015 5:41 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 22:15:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>     ref E opIndex(size_t i) return // here's the magic
>>
>> exactly what is this doing? I don't see this explained in DIP25 at all.
>
> The 'this' is passed by reference. So the 'return' is really 'return ref
> this', the rest is explained by DIP25.

We should amend DIP25 to explain that "this" is handled like a 
parameter. -- Andrei