On Thursday, May 09, 2013 09:00:43 Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 04:20:02 -0400, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah yes, right, C++ fix() would need to be 'const ref&', but we decide in > > D > > that 'ref const()' is too restrictive. > > I have no problem with ref const accepting rvalues. As I understand it, > Andrei's objection (and this may be wrong/incomplete) is that then there > is no way to say you accept only lvalues as const ref and rvalues via > non-ref (for performance reasons). But I think there is no technical > reason preventing that with D.
Given how restrictive const is in D, I think that it would be a mistake to make it so that the way to make a ref accept rvalues is by using const. - Jonathan M Davis