Re: Copy instead of reference?

[Maxim Fomin]

On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 11:57:04 UTC, Namespace wrote:
I know that D has (sadly) no C++ references, but I still think 
that

A a = some_existing_A;

should call opAssign.

Now I see what has you confused. Whether postblit or opAssign is 
called, depend on left, not right side of assignment. Object 'a' 
didn't exists prior, so postblit is called, and copy ctor is 
called with respect of 'a' as 'this' argument.