On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 7:17:15 PM MST Basile B. via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > From what I remember, it was that there was no reference to the > source. Things got blitted and you had to fix the copy, already > blitted. Was that the only issue ?
There were probably some use cases where you needed access to both the source and the destination so that you could do something to the source as well, but the core problem was simply that blitting and then mutating the copy to fix it doesn't work with const or immutable objects, since it would violate the type system to cast away const or immutable to fix the copy. The only way to work properly with const or immutable is to construct the object with the changes in the first place rather than mutating the copy after the fact. - Jonathan M Davis
