On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:53:15 -0400, monarch_dodra <monarchdo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 15:24:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Destroy.
-Steve
Please keep in mind that if the objects stored are RAII, then if/when we
will have a finalizing GC, the stomped elements will have been leaked.
Clobbering elements is more than just "I won't use these elements
anymore", it's "I won't use them, and they are safe to be discarded of
right now".
In know that's a big "if", but it could happen. If we go the way of your
proposal, we are definitively closing that door.
I'm not understanding this. Can you explain further/give example?
Semi-on topic, it would greatly help if assumeSafeAppend was nothrow. As
of right now, there are a lot of places in phobos where it could be
used, but isn't, because of this. In particular, assumeSafeAppend can be
used to both shrink an array, *or* grow an array up-to capacity.
Its greater use in phobos would help give it more visibility and
exposure.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/147
reserve and capacity were made nothrow, not sure why assumeSafeAppend
shouldn't also be.
-Steve
