On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:06:34 -0500, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
The only time (now) that you can take the address of function return
value is if that is a return by ref. So, if taking the address of a ref
is disallowed, then the syntax is no longer ambiguous.
Thinking about this, I don't know that I like the idea of disallowing
taking the address of ref.
One major usage of taking the address of ref returns is the opIndex
operator:
int *ptr = &arr[0];
Or, more generally, the front property of a range:
int *ptr = &arr.front;
What I am concerned about is that this is not going to have the desired
effect. Instead of grudgingly switching to a new style of coding, people
will simply return pointers instead of ref.
-Steve
