On Saturday, 26 October 2013 at 16:01:18 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 25/10/13 20:41, Namespace wrote:
Did you mean to get rid of built-in arrays / kill int[] and
replace it with
Array!T?
Array!T is problematic as things stand -- e.g. you can't
foreach over one. So, forgetting syntax preferences, there
needs to be some work on containers before they can "just work"
like the builtins.
If it's possible, I'd rather see the converse -- that code that
assumes the GC will "just work" with other allocation
strategies, so one can use the builtins without worrying. But
am I being naively hopeful in seeking that? :-)
I would never vote to replace the built-in arrays with something
ugly as Array!T.
If D would switch to Array!T and Map!(T, U) it would be the same
hell as with C++. But I hope allocators enable the possibility
that built-in arrays could use other memory mangaement besides
the GC. That would be awesome.
