From: Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com>
To: dmd-beta@puremagic.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [dmd-beta] D 2.059 beta 4
On 4/10/2012 3:59 AM, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
If I understand correctly (and I very well might
not), the idea is that auto ref is *always* ref, so only one
function is generated.
No. Two functions are generated.
I was referring to what I thought Andrei wanted, not how it is currently implemented. As I understand it, there is great confusion around this mechanism (and rightly so, I think the name is quite unintuitive). Anyway, it looks like the above is along the lines of what Andrei wanted, judging by his post explaining C++'s rvalue references.