Andrei Alexandrescu:
Actually the darndest thing is that C# has retired the syntax
in 5.0 (it used to be required up until 4.0). Apparently users
complained it was too unsightly.
Are you sure?
This page about the Visual Studio 2012 shows that ref and out are
required:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/14akc2c7.aspx
I know they have relaxed the requirement in one case, in C#4 or
something.
The idea of requiring ref/out at the all site was discussed some
times in past. This idea has both advantages and disadvantages.
It makes the code a bit longer, but gives the reader more
information about what the call will do.
In D there are also ref at the return value, I presume this is
never going to require a "ref" at the call site.
Bye,
bearophile
