• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Jul 21 2008

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley:
 foreach(ref elem; li)
     elem *= 2; 


In my first answer I have written some versions of this.
That Python code isn't equivalent to that:

a = [1, 2, 3]
b = a
a = [-el for el in a]
print a, b # [-1, -2, -3] [1, 2, 3]


import std.stdio: putr = writefln;
void main() {
    int[] a = [1, 2, 3];
    auto b = a;

    foreach (ref el; a)
        el = -el;
    putr(a, " ", b); // [-1,-2,-3] [-1,-2,-3]
}



import std.stdio: putr = writefln;
void main() {
    int[] a = [1, 2, 3];
    auto b = a;

    a = a.dup; 
    foreach (ref el; a)
        el = -el;
    putr(a, " ", b); // [-1,-2,-3] [1,2,3]
}

Bye,
bearophile