Re: A Refcounted Array Type

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 02:06:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

On 2/23/2015 5:41 PM, weaselcat wrote:

On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 22:15:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

   ref E opIndex(size_t i) return // here's the magic

exactly what is this doing? I don't see this explained in DIP25 at all.

The 'this' is passed by reference. So the 'return' is really 'return ref this', the rest is explained by DIP25.

Oh, I see. That makes a lot more sense.