On 4/29/2014 10:01 AM, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 16:52:27 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:[...] int[] foo() { int[] a; a ~= 42; // on memory owned by the GC return a; }I didn't realize this was possible... I figured it was equivalent to `null ~= 42` which I realize now is not correct, because a is not entirely a reference type. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Yeah, arrays and AAs sit in a no-man's-land between reference types and value types. :( I don't know that I've seen this precedent in any other language...
Dave
