On Thursday, 24 November 2016 at 00:15:07 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Thursday, 24 November 2016 at 00:04:51 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 23:21:53 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 23:02:30 UTC, Tofu Ninja
wrote:
Being able to get an alias to (ref int) seems like a bug.
you are unable to alias it, `ref` will be erased on aliasing.
the only way to retain it is to have a tuple with it. that
trick aliases *function* *argument* *tuple*, not a single
type.
yeah, `ref` is very special beast. but it is still type
modifier. ;-)
Unless I can write "alias refint = ref int;", this should not
be a feature at all... how did anyone think this is a good
idea. Seriously I used to love D but now it's just a mess of
hacks...
either this, or you won't be able to replicate function with
it's exact args; you won't be able to even check if some arg is
ref.
but not having `ref int` as a valid type declaration has it's
reasons.
You still can't replicate a function with this. No way to
replicate or even know if a parameter is variadic. No way to
replicate the ref on the return. No way to replicate the linkage
or attributes of the function. This is a hack that solves nothing.
