Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 19:49:25 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:50:48 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: How do you propose to make a mutable copy *generically*? You can't. Let alone generically. If I give you an "immutable int* p", how do you copy it to "int

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 19:49:25 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:50:48 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: How do you propose to make a mutable copy *generically*? You can't. Let alone generically. If I give you an "immutable int* p", how do you copy it to "int

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread monarch_dodra
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:50:48 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: How do you propose to make a mutable copy *generically*? You can't. Let alone generically. If I give you an "immutable int* p", how do you copy it to "int* p" ? On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 18:11:48 UTC, Daniel Davids

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Dicebot
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 18:14:22 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: I agree with the sentiment. But as it stands I think a copy should not be necessary. I could make a local mutable R, pass it to createRFromT to get it initialized and then copy it back somehow to the member variable r. That t

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 18:09:55 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:05:25 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: The code below fails to compile due to the last line. I was hoping casting away immutable would allow the call to foo. I think it is not accepted because of th

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:55:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote: struct S { R r; this(ref immutable(T) t) immutable { r.tupleof = t.tupleof; } } ? Thanks. It is cute - but not so helpful. The example stands. I *need* to call a createRFromT. Their shapes are the same in this simple ex

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:58:41 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:50:48 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:16:39 UTC, Dicebot wrote: It works as it should. Make a mutable copy of t2 and pass it. Or make foo() accept const. I can't i

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Maxim Fomin
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:05:25 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: The code below fails to compile due to the last line. I was hoping casting away immutable would allow the call to foo. I think it is not accepted because of the rval to ref issue. If that is the case, how can foo be called by

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Dicebot
struct S { R r; this(ref immutable(T) t) immutable { r.tupleof = t.tupleof; } } ?

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Dicebot
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:50:48 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:16:39 UTC, Dicebot wrote: It works as it should. Make a mutable copy of t2 and pass it. Or make foo() accept const. I can't imagine a single legitimate use case for destroying type system

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:16:39 UTC, Dicebot wrote: It works as it should. Make a mutable copy of t2 and pass it. Or make foo() accept const. I can't imagine a single legitimate use case for destroying type system in a way you want. How do you propose to make a mutable copy *generi

Re: does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Dicebot
On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 17:05:25 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: import std.conv; struct T { int[] i; string[string] ss; } void foo(ref T t) { } void main() { T t1; auto t2 = immutable T(); foo(t1); foo(cast()t2); } It works as it should. Make a mutable copy of t2 and pass i

does cast make an lvalue appear to be an rvalue

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Davidson
The code below fails to compile due to the last line. I was hoping casting away immutable would allow the call to foo. I think it is not accepted because of the rval to ref issue. If that is the case, how can foo be called by casting? I'm not a fan of casting but I'm finding cases where it is