On Sunday, 7 December 2014 at 21:29:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
My experience with C++ ref as type qualifier is very, very bad.
It's a special case EVERYWHERE. Doing type deduction with it is
an exercise in a completely baffling set of rules and a
different rule for every occasion - Scott Meyers has a great
piece on this.
There are probably only a handful of people on the planet who
actually understand C++ ref. I wished very hard to avoid that
with D ref.
Type qualifier for scope is the wrong tool.
scope(int)[] do not make any sense. The slice cannot outlive its
content. scope as a flag on expressions/symbols is very useful.
