On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:43:08 -0500 bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
> Nick Voronin: > > > Here is where we diverge. Choosing struct vs class on criteria of their > > placement makes no sense to me. > > In D you use a class if you want inheritance or when you (often) need > reference semantics, and you use a struct when you need a little value passed > around by value or when you want a simple form of RAII or when you want to > implement something manually (like using PIMPL), or when you want max > performance (and you manage structs by pointer, you may even put a tag inside > the stuct or the pointer and implement manually some kind of inheritance). > With structs you have a literal syntax, postblits, in-place allocation, and > you are free to use align() too. Well said. Plenty of differences there more important than stack/heap allocation. -- Nick Voronin <elfy...@gmail.com>
