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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000173 | LDMud | LPC Compiler/Preprocessor | public | 2004-11-26 21:14 | 2004-11-26 21:14 |
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| Priority | normal | Severity | text | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0000173: MudOS references vs. LDMud references | ||||
| Description | Short: References MudOS vs. Amylaar Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:08:04 +0200 (EET) Type: Feature State: Unclassified The MudOS way of specifying reference arguments in the function signatures make more sense than the Amylaar way of modifying the actual arguments. Beek gives a good reason: > Amylaar pass-by-reference is a real kludge, which is why it works > differently in MudOS: consider the fact that you can expose internal > modifications of function arguments by passing a reference to a > function that didn't expect one! That's certainly wierd, and possibly > even a security problem in poorly code functions ... It can be argued if requiring the 'ref' in the function call is a good thing or not, but it is a reminder to the programmer. It can even be used to pass constant variables/literals for such arguments: void foo(ref int x); foo(5) -> GD creates a temporary int, assigns 5 and passes it as argument foo(ref 5) -> compile-time error | ||||
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