digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 18963] New: Relax restrictions on 'return' parameters when
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (24/24) Jun 09 2018 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18963
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18963 Issue ID: 18963 Summary: Relax restrictions on 'return' parameters when parameter is not a pointer Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: bugzilla digitalmars.com Consider: T Identity(T)(return T t) { return t; } void bar(int i, void* p) { Identity(p); // no error Identity(i); // Error: parameter t is return but function // does not return any indirections } The error unreasonably impairs the creation of generic code, and so 'return' should simply be ignored for such cases. --
Jun 09 2018