On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 16:29:27 UTC, NX wrote:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 05:56:54 UTC, Patience wrote:
Just curious if anyone can see the use for them?
I believe 'new' keyword can take advantage of this quite good.
For example you can pass memory usage strategy like so:
MyClass mc = new[stream] MyClass();
MyClass mc2 = new[static] MyClass();
Deja-vu? Yes the idea comes from OpenGL. Also it might come in
handy for other stuff:
MyClass mc3 = new[no_internal_pointers] MyClass();
MyClass mc4 = new[no_compacting] MyClass();
Yeah, Maybe... new seems more like a keyword hack though. Things
like if and loop are more natural as keywords(I guess since they
generally have precise meanings in hardware/assembly). If the
language already has new as a keyword though, it does seem like a
good way to modify its behavior.
