On Saturday, 15 December 2012 at 21:10:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:18:21 H. S. Teoh wrote:
It seems that the only clean way to do this is to use a class
instead of
a struct, since the .init value will conveniently just be
null, thereby
sidestepping the problem.
That would incur unnecessary overhead and probably break all
kinds of code,
because they're then reference types instead of value types,
and a _lot_ of
code doesn't use save propperly. If structs can't do what we
need as Voldemort
types, it's just better to make it so that they're not
Voldemort types.
Voldemort types are a cute idea, and in principle are great,
but I don't think
that it's worth fighting to keep them if they have problems.
- Jonathan M Davis
I always found them inconsistent with the behavior they have in
classes (where no outer pointer is created).
This is a lot of work to do in the standard lib however.
