On 10/10/13 20:28, Sean Kelly wrote:
Isn't BigInt a struct? I'd expect it to work via copying just like concrete
types.
Yes, it's a struct, but somewhere inside its internals I think it contains
arrays. I'm not sure how that affects copying etc., but suffice to say that if
you try the following:
BigInt a = 2;
BigInt b = a;
b = 3;
assert(a != b);
assert(a !is b);
... then it passes. So it behaves at least in this extent like a value type.
But suffice to say that it was an unpleasant surprise that I couldn't just take
it and pass to a function accepting an unqualified BigInt argument.
