On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 at 16:11:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/18/13 11:11 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 at 14:39:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/18/13 10:16 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I say again that RNGs being passed by value is a major BUG.
The above
situation is a prime example of this problem. We *need* to
make RNGs
passed by reference. For situations where you *want* to
duplicate a
pseudo random sequence, an explicit method should be
provided to clone
the RNG. Duplication of RNGs should never be implicit.
Occasionally copying a RNG's state is useful, but I agree
most of the
time you want to just take a reference to it.
I think a good way toward a solution is
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10404.
Andrei
That sounds nice, but is it possible? The only way to truly
forward
everything is via an alias this.
Nonono, that must use introspection and mixins, like WhiteHole
and BlackHole do.
Andrei
Hum... just looked at the code. I was hoping there was a way to
do this without pulling out the heavy artillery...
