On Monday, 14 September 2020 at 16:44:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
This is a common mistake with people coming from C++. A D class
is more like a Java class - it is automatically a reference.
So your class Bob here in D would actually be represented as
`Bob*` in C++.
Thus when you define `Bob*` in D, that's like a `Bob**` in
C++... a pointer to a pointer. Thus you're getting the address
on the stack of the local, not at all what you want.
Your factory should really just be:
Bob bobFactory() { return new Bob; }
Then to compare addresses, do:
writeln(cast(void*) bob); // convert the reference itself to a
pointer
thank you! I was driving myself mad.
makes sense now.
