First Draft: ref For Variable Declarations

[Walter Bright]

On 4/12/2024 2:34 PM, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
>> Decades of successful use have clearly demonstrated the utility of this form 
>> of restricted pointer.
> 
> It would be useful to expand on this. It obviously hasn't been used for decades 
> in D programs if you're proposing it as a new language feature. I don't remember 
> ever using it in any language.

It's been used as ref function parameters and foreach ref parameters, as 
mentioned in the DIP.