On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 03:48:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/12/2014 6:48 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
What happens when a scope() thing finds it's way into generic
code? If the type
doesn't carry that information, then you end up in a situation
like ref. Have
you ever had to wrestle with ref in generic code?
ref is the biggest disaster zone in D, and I think all it's
problems will
translate straight to scope if you do this.
I'm unaware of this disaster zone.
Well it is very real. I had to duplicate bunch of code in my
visitor generator recently because of it. Getting generic code
ref correct is very tedious, error prone, and guarantees code
duplication and/or various static ifs all over the place.
