On 8/31/13 1:34 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote:
On Friday, 30 August 2013 at 21:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
* scope: cute and dangerous in equal proportions - great for a movie
character, terrible for language design.
I'll argue for it and others can then destroy.
IME, a lot of the value of functional programming (by which I mean,
programming with higher order functions) can be had with downward
funargs, as found in Pascal (and more recently, Ada), which don't
require garbage collection.
The D language expresses closures and higher order functions as
delegates, and uses the heap to manage these. I had assumed that we
could use 'scope' on the delegate being passed to prevent it's heap
allocation, as discussed here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4711309/meaning-of-scope-in-d-for-a-parameter
That use will stay and is useful and uncontested.
Andrei
