On 5/24/2012 11:50 PM, Don Clugston wrote:
Opinions?
My experience with such special cases is that users lose the ability to reason
about what code will work in CTFE and what will not. Its operation will become a
magical, unknowable black box. Meanwhile, you'll be endlessly chasing more
special cases and rainbows.
I suggest not supporting it unless it can be done in the general case.
One solution might be to attach to each CTFE pointer a reference to the object
it is pointing into. Then, pointer comparisons within the same object can work,
and comparing pointers from different objects can explicitly and predictably be
not supported.
