On 2010-08-12 18:56:50 -0400, dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> said:
How can these limitations be worked around and/or fixed?
Unsatisfaction about Rebindable seems pretty generalized.
Here's an idea for a solution. Basically the problem is only in the
syntax, where the reference is implicitly part of the object's type and
thus impossible to put outside from the type modifier. An easy solution
would be to add an explicit reference marker, but this would change the
syntax for existing code, and I have to admit the current syntax is
nice (up until you try to add a modifier). But we could make the
reference marker optional, like this:
Object o; // implicitly a reference
Object ref o; // explicit reference marker
Both would be allowed and equivalent. While the first form is nicer to
the eye, the second makes it easy to apply a type modifier while
excluding the reference:
const(Object)ref o;
shared(Object)ref o;
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