On Friday, March 07, 2014 12:41:23 Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1356 was recently > merged (pull by Kenji), implementing this enhancement: > https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9112 > > Example code: > > ----- > int n = int(1); > > int *p = new int(1); > assert(*p == 1); > ----- > > I'm just curious what people think about the new feature. Discuss!
I've pushed for this for ages. Pointers to built-in types are seriously hampered without it, and it helps generic code considerably to have it. It was one of those things that I was shocked to find out didn't work from the get- go. - Jonathan M Davis
