Return Type Attributes: auto and ref
Explore how to apply return type attributes auto and ref in D programming. Understand how auto deduces return types automatically and how ref returns a reference instead of a copy. Learn about the implications of returning references, including managing variable lifetimes and modifying caller variables through returned aliases.
So far in the course, functions have been covered in the following chapters:
This chapter will cover more features of functions.
Return type attributes
Functions can be marked as auto, ref, inout, and auto ref. ...