On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 20:19:30 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:14:13 +0000, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 20:12:48 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:13:30 +0000, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
When I have myarray.length, why isn't that considered an
lvalue,
and as a result, why cannot I get a pointer to it?
It seems kinda dumb, I understand it cannot be changed
manually,
but surely you should be able to get a const(type)* from it?
I believe `length` is implemented as a property function,
though I can't find the source for the life of me.
Then you still should be able to get a pointer of the result.
I was also
considering it to be a @property function, as indeed that'd
explain this
behaviour, but it still doesn't make sense to not allow it.
After all,
length is just a variable.
Unless the length function returns by ref, the result is an
rvalue and
you won't be able to take a reference.
Why doesn't it return by reference? Seems kinda dumb.
