On Monday, 3 September 2012 at 15:46:49 UTC, Carl Sturtivant
wrote:
It seems that the following discussion is relevant to the above.
"Why can't we have reference variables"
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
A conservative viewpoint is that converting S* to ref S at the
point of call requires that the pointer is valid (because
non-pointer variables always work properly as a part of the way
the language is defined), and there's no way that the compiler
can simply verify that this is so. Therefore, such a conversion
should be the programmers responsibility and not be done
implicitly.
Carl.
Truth be told, I had thought of that argument, yet at the same
time, the argument also applies for "s.foo();"
What is bothering me is the inconsistent treatment. That and
"there is no -> in D because it is not needed", when well, it
sure feels like it is.
