On Monday, 13 December 2021 at 12:51:17 UTC, evilrat wrote:
That example is still looks very conspicuous because it is very likely does nothing on the caller side in C++ as it passes a copy.
Yes, I wouldn't want to use it, maybe manual mangling is better, but still painful. ```const A&``` is so common in C++ API's that it really should be supported out-of-the-box. All it takes is adding a deref-type-constructor to the D language spec, e.g. ```ref const(@deref(A))```
