On 9/2/2013 5:34 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 00:05:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/2/2013 4:57 PM, Dylan Knutson wrote:
Can someone shed some light on this?
It comes from C. This was done in C so that addresses of struct instances will
always be unique.
Why is that important, and why does D need it?
In C, this might make some sense, however empty structs are much more useful in
D, e.g. for metaprogramming.
There were huge debates about this back when the C standard was in development.
I don't really want to start that up again :-), I don't remember all the pros
and cons, suffice to say that with D's vaunted C compatibility I think it should
behave the same way.
