On Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 23:23:08 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
formattedRead takes its input by ref and consumes it. Your
first two
attempts are both passing the result of functions (dropExactly
and
opSlice) which are temporary rvalues and can thus not be passed
by
reference. Here's more reading on the subject of rvalues:
http://
ddili.org/ders/d.en/lvalue_rvalue.html
Ok, thanks, I see. It looks a little weird, but there is the same
restriction in C#, actually. Must learn to read those D function
signatures more closely...My excuse is it's 1 am :-)
