Season of Docs

[Walter Bright]

On 3/18/2019 11:19 PM, Mike Franklin wrote:
> Revisiting this just now, I realize that if I make the parameter `scope int* p` 
> instead of `scope int p` it works fine.

`scope` applied to values that do not contain any references gets ignored 
because it applies to references. The compiler is behaving as designed.


> Also, some of your DIP 1000 PRs should not have been merged because they lacked 
> enough documentation for anyone to do a proper review, but my concerns fell on 
> deaf ears.  And just any documentation is not sufficient.  To this day, you're 
> still fielding questions on the forum because noone knows how it's supposed to 
> work; they're just speculating.  Perhaps if you documented it, others might know 
> how to leverage it and help you with your immediate goal of improving Phobos.

I suggest:

   http://dconf.org/2017/talks/bright.html

for a tutorial on the basics.