On 2011-02-01 12:07:55 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> said:
With this, the question becomes a matter of choosing the right default:
do we want values most of the time and occasional references, or vice
versa? I think most of the time you need references, as witnessed by
the many '&'s out there in code working on STL containers.
What exactly is "most of the time"? In C++, you pass containers by '&'
for function parameters, using '&' elsewhere is rare.
One thing I proposed some time ago to address this problem (and to
which no one replied) was this:
ref struct Container { ... } // new "ref struct" concept
void func(Container c) {
// c is implicitly a "ref Container"
}
Container a; // by value
func(a); // implicitly passed by ref
Containers would be stored by value, but always passed by ref in
functions parameters.
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