• Kagamin (1/1) Apr 11 2009 If "in" is equivalent to "scope const". What "scope" means? Does it mean...
• Jarrett Billingsley (4/5) Apr 11 2009 Someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but the definition of 'in' as
• Ali Cehreli (6/13) Nov 02 2009 Could someone please verify that statement.

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

If "in" is equivalent to "scope const". What "scope" means? Does it mean that
this argument doesn't escape scope of this function? Then "const" parameters
are not quite equivalent to "in" parameters.

Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Kagamin <spam here.lot> wrote:
 If "in" is equivalent to "scope const". What "scope" means? Does it mean that
this argument doesn't escape scope of this function? Then "const" parameters
are not quite equivalent to "in" parameters.

Someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but the definition of 'in' as
'scope const' is a vestige from the original const system that was in
D2 and 'scope' no longer really means anything.

Ali Cehreli <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Kagamin <spam here.lot> wrote:
 If "in" is equivalent to "scope const". What "scope" means? Does it mean that
this argument doesn't escape scope of this function? Then "const" parameters
are not quite equivalent to "in" parameters.

 
 Someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but the definition of 'in' as
 'scope const' is a vestige from the original const system that was in
 D2 and 'scope' no longer really means anything.

Could someone please verify that statement.

If so, 'scope' should be removed from Function Parameters at

  http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/function.html

Thank you,
Ali