dip1000 and preview in combine to cause extra safety errors
Dukc
ajieskola at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 20:49:46 UTC 2022
On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 at 19:02:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> D already doesn't allow returning a pointer to stack data, even
> in `@system` code. Doesn't this also qualify?
>
> -Steve
D does allow it, just not directly:
```D
// error
int* escape(int arg){return &arg;}
// ok
int* escape(int arg)
{ auto temp = &arg;
return temp;
}
```
The philosophy is to force to be explicit in the simplest cases
that are almost always errors, but not trying to seriously
prevent the escape.
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