On 15/01/12 10:10 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
Another thing that would have to be discussed: what happens to const ref
parameters? It is very reasonable that someone will decide to change
calling conventions from by value to by const ref or the other way round
after profiling. It is very convenient that such a change is
syntactically transparent to the caller and this should stay.
Actually, that would be very dangerous. const ref does not have the
privilege of being able to bind to rvalues in D like it does in C++.
void foo(const ref int x) {...}
foo(1); // this is legal in C++, but illegal in D
In case, const ref would not require the ref at call site because
there's no danger of it being modified.
