ref tidy way to defreference or is something else going on ?

2018-10-16 Thread Codifies via Digitalmars-d-learn
I've a bunch of 4x4 matrix routines in C, in order to avoid copying around multiple 4x4 matrices I pass pointers... I'm assuming that in D it would make sense to use ref ? what's going on behind the scenes with ref is it just a nice way of passing pointers with automagical dereferencing or is

Re: ref tidy way to defreference or is something else going on ?

2018-10-16 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 16/10/2018 11:36 PM, Codifies wrote: I've a bunch of 4x4 matrix routines in C, in order to avoid copying around multiple 4x4 matrices I pass pointers... I'm assuming that in D it would make sense to use ref ? what's going on behind the scenes with ref is it just a nice way of passing point