On 3/10/14, 8:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I think you are missing what I'm saying, I don't want the allocation
eliminated, but if we eliminate some allocations with [] and not others,
it will be confusing. The path I'd always hoped we would go in was to
make all array literals immutable, and make allocation of mutable arrays
on the heap explicit.
Adding eliding of some allocations for optimization is good, but I (and
I think possibly Dicebot) think all array literals should not allocate.
I think so too. But that's irrelevant because arrays do allocate (at
least behave as if they did) and that's how the cookie crumbles.
D is a wonderful language, and is getting better literally by day. There
is a lot more in using it in new and interesting ways, than in brooding
about its inevitable imperfections.
Andrei
