On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:14:21 +
Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com
wrote:
The title
More ref return fixes in std.datetime now that the compiler
allows them
of
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2227/files
made me curious to what is meant by ref return. Is this a recent
improvement in DMD?
No. We've been able to return by ref for ages. However, when std.datetime was
originally written back in 2010, there were bugs that prevented it from
working for a number of the functions in std.datetime. Unfortunately, I can't
remember what the bugs were at this point, but they've long since been fixed,
and I just finally got around to making it so that those functions in
std.datetime return by ref instead of void.
- Jonathan M Davis
