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I agree that I could only use classes instead of structs to get this behavior. But since the language permits it, if another programmer on my team uses a struct, I need to know additional information about his type. It's just "one more thing" to check. The issue that I'm getting at is that the language should allow me to know this by looking at my "local context" only.

Dragonspell
– Dragonspell

2016-03-30 20:02:34 +00:00
Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 20:02
You can hover over the variable in Visual Studio, and it will tell you if it's defined as a struct or a class.

Robert Harvey
– Robert Harvey

2016-03-30 20:03:22 +00:00
Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 20:03
I definitely agree with you that method chaining should always be approached from an immutable perspective. However, a beginner may make the mistake of accidentally mutating the reference in his implementation; and the caller can't know this until a bug occurs. Value semantics for parameters would allow the language to mitigate this.

Dragonspell
– Dragonspell

2016-03-30 20:05:59 +00:00
Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 20:05
I know, I do this all the time (hover over) and it doesn't cause any problems for me. I'm just interested in language design from a theoretical approach. Visual Studio is a tool that provides extra information. I was just wondering if the language, as a stand-alone entity should help more.

Dragonspell
– Dragonspell

2016-03-30 20:08:00 +00:00
Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 20:08

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