On 6/18/13 11:11 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 at 14:39:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 6/18/13 10:16 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I say again that RNGs being passed by value is a major BUG. The above
situation is a prime example of this problem. We *need* to make RNGs
passed by reference. For situations where you *want* to duplicate a
pseudo random sequence, an explicit method should be provided to clone
the RNG. Duplication of RNGs should never be implicit.
Occasionally copying a RNG's state is useful, but I agree most of the
time you want to just take a reference to it.
I think a good way toward a solution is
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10404.
Andrei
That sounds nice, but is it possible? The only way to truly forward
everything is via an alias this.
Nonono, that must use introspection and mixins, like WhiteHole and
BlackHole do.
Andrei
