On 2/5/13 4:45 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:15:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/5/13 2:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I think a cast would be sufficient:
cast(int *)(&refparam); // understood that a cast is required
To jump through this machinery to turn a reference into a, um...
reference, seems like a huge waste of code space and resources.
The whole point was to avoid using operator &.
The mechanism to avoid it seems overly extravagant (and prone to low
performance). If you want actually avoid using operator &, then make a
compiler special function or something.
As I said, there are various solutions. I wrote one that's reasonably
portable.
Also, the use of & can still be hidden inside a function.
My point was to not need & such that the function itself can be compiled.
Overall I think this is not the focal issue, the consequences are.
Andrei
