On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 02:07:19 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:16:20 +0200
"Tommi" <tommitiss...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 00:34:02 UTC, cal wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 00:21:29 UTC, Tommi wrote:
>> In this situation, I think, the most convenient and
>> sensible thing to do is to make a reference to the data,
>> and use that reference multiple times. We could make a
>> pointer, but then we'd be stuck with the nasty syntax of
>> dereferencing:
>
> This works currently:
>
> struct Test
> {
> void foo() const
> {
> writeln("FOO");
> }
> }
>
> void main()
> {
> immutable(Test)* ptr = new immutable(Test);
> ptr.foo();
> }
Now, that's a surprise for someone coming from C++. But even
though ptr looks like a reference variable in your example, it
doesn't look like it at all in this example:
I've been primarily a D guy for years, and even I'm surprised
by that!
O_O
You didn't know that the dot operator does dereference? That's
quite a big one to miss for years.
