On Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 11:58:12 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On 06.06.2012 15:45, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
I had this idea for a long time now and was trying to find a
reason
why it was a bad idea.
I failed to find that reason, so here it is:
There is. For one thing I like pointer for being explicit about
dereferencing something. In this sense having ref arguments of
function is IMO step backwards:
mutator(a, b);
vs
mutator(a, &b);
which one more likely to mutate arguments?
In today's D you'll never know.
I never had any issue with this in the Pascal language family.
You need anyway always to look the function code, as you cannot
know
what other side-effects might also be affected by the function
call.
Plus any modern IDE can show the definition as tooltip.
--
Paulo
