https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12918
Matt Kline <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from Matt Kline <[email protected]> --- (In reply to bearophile_hugs from comment #1) > What are some use cases of code like that? Say struct Foo has a member Bar* b, which can either contain some optional data or be null to indicate that no such data is currently present. >From some other data structure, you procure an instance of Bar (call it other) which you would like to assign to b. However, to make the lifetime of b independent of its source, you want to create a garbage-collected copy of other and assign it to b. --
