On 2/5/13 3:08 PM, TommiT wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 18:33:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[..]
Walter and I reviewed the discussion and had a long talk. We are very
seriously considering banning the use of & against a ref result from a
function (and actually ref parameters and even struct members in @safe
code). [..]
Did you consider using Rust's idea of 'Named lifetimes' in order to make
ref parameters memory-safe. I haven't given much thought to it, but
since Rust's borrowed pointers are effectively isomorphic to D's ref
variables, it should work. Here's a Rust borrowed pointer tutorial:
http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.html
Thanks, I'll give that a read. We're very careful at this point about
spending much "complexity budget" (as a friend calls it) on new features.
Andrei
