On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:16:20 +0200 "Tommi" <tommitiss...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 00:34:02 UTC, cal wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 00:21:29 UTC, Tommi wrote: > >> In this situation, I think, the most convenient and sensible > >> thing to do is to make a reference to the data, and use that > >> reference multiple times. We could make a pointer, but then > >> we'd be stuck with the nasty syntax of dereferencing: > > > > This works currently: > > > > struct Test > > { > > void foo() const > > { > > writeln("FOO"); > > } > > } > > > > void main() > > { > > immutable(Test)* ptr = new immutable(Test); > > ptr.foo(); > > } > > Now, that's a surprise for someone coming from C++. But even > though ptr looks like a reference variable in your example, it > doesn't look like it at all in this example: > I've been primarily a D guy for years, and even I'm surprised by that! O_O