On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 18:42:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 12/24/12 1:05 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 17:37:54 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/24/12 12:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, December 24, 2012 17:55:23 Minas Mina wrote:
On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 23:59:55 UTC, Jonathan M
Davis
wrote:
On Monday, December 24, 2012 00:48:01 Namespace wrote:
but Andrei is dead set against
- Jonathan M Davis
Why?
He's convinced that it's caused problems for C++ and was a
major
mistake. You
can search the newsgroup for discussions on it. The most
recent one
which
involved Andrei was in the beta group:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
- Jonathan M Davis
An important smoking gun is C++'s min(), which is allows
writing
unsafe code without casts.
const int& haveANiceDay = min(4, 5);
Andrei
But that example actually works correctly.
No.
Andrei
Hum... Indeed, it takes by ref *and* returns by ref. Passing in
to out a const ref is *the* smoking gun. Working with D has
gotten me used to functions that take by value and return by
value...
Snap. You got me.
