On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 14:27:08 kenji hara wrote: > 2012/6/27 Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>: > > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 07:02:28 Mehrdad wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 04:26:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > >> > >> wrote: > >> > And how would that work? auto ref duplicates the function. If > >> > you pass it an lvalue, then it generates a ref version. > >> > >> Two solutions: > >> > >> - Turn 'auto ref' into 'ref', but simply have the compiler > >> generate a copy for the caller if he wants to pass by value? > > > > That at least sounds like it would work. Walter may have a reason why it > > doesn't though, since he's the one that said that he didn't think that it > > was possible. Maybe he just didn't think of it, or maybe it causes some > > other problem that I can't think of. > > After considering about 'auto ref', I was concluded that is an > inconsistency of current language spec and we cannot fix it correctly. > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8204 > > Therefore, I have created a thread to suggest new 'auto ref' recently. > http://forum.dlang.org/thread/CAFDvkcvf6G8Mc01Tds6ydXqCZbfp1q-a-oeFVk6BGEtwC > [email protected]
If it can be done, I'm all for it. We really need a solution to this problem, and conceptually, auto ref was a good idea, it just hasn't worked thus far. - Jonathan M Davis
