On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 13:05:41 UTC, Warwick wrote:
On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 09:43:04 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 19:48:39 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
This is the innovation in D(regarding this issue) - that on
struct types, the same operator is used for BOTH the value
type and the pointer to it.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record the Delphi variant
of Object Pascal started doing that some time around Delphi 4
or Delphi 5 IIRC. (So mid to late 90s).
IE. You accessed members with the dot operator whether it was
an object (like D Delphi's objects are heap based / reference
semantics), a struct, or a pointer to a struct.
You should have elaborated then. The other guys talked about the
invention of reference types, so I assumed you did as well.
