On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:55:53 -0600, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Ben Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi,
Please excuse the cross-post with D.learn. People have been helpful there
with workarounds, but I'm bringing it here in the hope that we can discuss
a language enhancement.
So - could support for 'ref' local variables be added, or is there a
reason not to? I want to write something like:
MapTile[] map; // It's a struct
ref MapTile tile=map[y*w+x];
tile.id=something;
tile.isWall=true;
someFunctionThatTakesRefMapTile(tile);
I *really* want the ability to do that sort of thing, although I think it
should be an alias rather than a ref variable:
MapTile[] map; // It's a struct
alias map[y*w+x] tile;
tile.id=something;
tile.isWall=true;
someFunctionThatTakesRefMapTile(tile);
Would making pointers implicitly convert to ref parameters suffice? i.e. make
void foo(ref int x) { x++; }
int x = 5;
auto y = &x;
foo(y);
valid D code?
