When to Use Pointers

Explore the role and appropriate use cases for pointers in D programming. Understand how pointers can reference local variables, serve as essential elements in data structures like linked lists and binary trees, and enable direct memory access. This lesson will help you recognize when pointers are necessary and how they differ from D's reference types.

We'll cover the following...

- When referencing variables of value types
- As member variables of data structures
- When accessing memory directly

1.Introduction

2.Lifetimes, null Value and the is Operator

3.Type Conversions

4.Structs

5.Variable Number of Parameters

6.Function Overloading and Member Functions

7.Constructor and Other Special Functions

8.Operator Overloading

9.Introduction to Classes

10.Inheritance

11.The Object Class

12.Interfaces

13.destroy and scoped

14.Modules and Libraries

15.Encapsulation and Protection Attributes

16.UFCS, Properties and Contract Programming

17.Templates

18.Pragmas, alias and with

19.Pointers

20.Bit Operations

21.Conditional Compilation

22.Function Pointers, Delegates, and Lambdas

23.foreach with Structs and Classes

24.Unions, Labels, goto and Tuples

25.More Templates

26.More Functions

27.Mixins

28.Ranges

29.static foreach and Parallelism

30.Message Passing Concurrency

31.Data Sharing Concurrency

32.Fibers

33.Memory Management

34.User Defined Attributes (UDA) and Operator Precedence

35.Conclusion

When to Use Pointers