On Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 17:19:26 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
1. There is no generic way to deep copy stuff.
Could you elaborate on that a bit more?
How about a deep-assign operator? The compiler could implicitly
define it at least for arrays and for structs that don't have
mutable indirection:
struct MyStruct
{
int _value;
// implicit:
ref MyStruct opDeepAssign(ref const MyStruct ms)
{
this = ms;
return this;
}
}
int[] array1 = [1, 2, 3];
int[] array2;
array2.opDeepAssign(array1); // array2 = array1.dup;
And there would be hasDeepAssign!T traits and whatnot.
