Re: A Refcounted Array Type

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/23/15 6:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/23/2015 5:41 PM, weaselcat wrote:
On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 22:15:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
    ref E opIndex(size_t i) return // here's the magic

exactly what is this doing? I don't see this explained in DIP25 at all.

The 'this' is passed by reference. So the 'return' is really 'return ref
this', the rest is explained by DIP25.

We should amend DIP25 to explain that "this" is handled like a 
parameter. -- Andrei