ping on this. Also, same question with std.getopt, which takes by pointer instead of by ref.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Timothee Cour <thelastmamm...@gmail.com>wrote: > > If I change formattedRead's input signature to: > uint formattedRead(R, Char, S...)(ref R r, const(Char)[] fmt, ref S args) > and adjusted code accordingly. > > It seems to work fine. > > see implementation here: > > https://github.com/timotheecour/dtools/blob/master/dtools/overrides/format.d#L29 > (just run unittests: rdmd --main -unittest dtools/all.d) > > why is std.format. formattedRead taking by pointer instead ? > could we change that (with proper deprecation), or add that function? > >
