First Draft: ref For Variable Declarations

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 12 April 2024 at 21:39:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Then you're missing the very important qualification that they've 
been used successfully in other contexts. That doesn't provide 
evidence relevant to this proposal.