On Friday, 15 April 2016 at 17:11:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
3. For all problems that inout is purported to solve, I know of
idioms that are definitely simpler and overall almost as good
if not better. So a hard question is whether the existence is
justified.
If it's something to be avoided except in particular cases, then
I suggest that is made clear in the documentation. I had not
realized that the main reason that inout was added was because of
not being able to use templates as virtual functions in classes.
