On Thursday, 29 September 2016 at 23:42:29 UTC, Jacob wrote:
Was wondering if this feature could be implemented, right now
auto needs to be written like this:
auto pValue = someFunctionReturnsRef(); // forgot '&',
still valid
// makes a copy
when we didn't want one
The feature would make the code look like this:
auto* pValue = someFunctionReturnsRef(); // error expecting
pointer
We don't accidentally make a copy when we wanted a pointer. C++
has a similar semantic for it's auto.
This suggestion has come up before but Andrei is against it.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/3615
It brings a tear to my eye.
