Issue 1974 - What's your opinion?

[Timon Gehr]

On 24.10.19 13:45, Dukc wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 08:02:28 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> [snip]
> 
> The root cause here, I think, is that `Foo.opAddAssign` takes the 
> implicit member parameter as `auto ref`

That's not what `auto ref` means! The `this` parameter is a `ref` 
parameter within the body of the called member function, so it is not 
`auto ref`.

> when in this case it would be 
> more appropriate to take it as `ref`.
> ...

It does take the parameter by `ref`.

> Unfortunately, you can't mark it like that - `void opAddAssign(int z) 
> ref { _this.y += z; }` fails to compile. Perhaps it should?
> 
> 

`ref` on a function applies to the return value.