Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
Yeah I agree now after reading most of this thread, I know that these
keywords just map to functions.
I've seen a proposal of a global new template somewhere, I don't like
that since at the global scope there are also structs, arrays and
whatnot that can be allocated by 'new'.
Well it's easy to handle all of those with conditional templates.
I don't like the static new either since it prevents subclasses from
overriding their new/delete operations.
What would then be a good way to replace new/delete operators to still
have them overridable? Isn't that the convenience that first got them to
be used in the first place? Other than global new/delete overrides which
is plain silly in D.
I've pretty much found alternatives to all my other points against
taking out new/delete except for the override feature, find me an
alternative for that too and I'll be voting for new/delete to be runtime
function instead of language keywords, cause I can't think of anything
right now.
I think you'd find this article interesting:
http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=184405016&dept_url=/java/
Andrei
