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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 6987] New: The "Memory Management" documentation incorrectly claims arrays are passed by reference.

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           Summary: The "Memory Management" documentation incorrectly
                    claims arrays are passed by reference.
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: websites
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: blood.of.life gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Bernard Helyer <blood.of.life gmail.com> 2011-11-22
03:50:14 PST ---
http://www.d-programming-language.org/memory.html


Consider the case of passing an array to a function, possibly modifying the 
contents of the array, and returning the modified array. Since arrays are
passed 
by reference, not by value, a crucial issue is who owns the contents of the 
array?


The semantics of using an array passed to a function may be reference like, but
the array is most certainly not 'passed by reference'. Glossing this over will
lead to confusion for people later on when they resize an array passed to a
function and wonder why the changes haven't been reflected at the call site.

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--- Comment #1 from Bernard Helyer <blood.of.life gmail.com> 2011-11-22
03:53:26 PST ---
I would suggest something like

"as the contents of an array are accessed through a reference..."

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--- Comment #2 from Bernard Helyer <blood.of.life gmail.com> 2011-12-11
20:27:59 PST ---
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/43

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Walter Bright <bugzilla digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |spec
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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