On Friday, 19 August 2016 at 02:59:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 18 August 2016 at 22:50:27 UTC, John Smith wrote:
Garbage collector is in a few libraries as well. I think the
only problem I had with that is that the std.range library has
severely reduced functionality when using static arrays.
std.range is one of the libraries that has never used the GC
much. Only tiny parts of it ever have,
Moreover, dynamic arrays do not necessarily have to be GC'd.
Heck, you can even malloc them if you want to
(`(cast(int*)malloc(int.sizeof))[0 .. 1]` gives an int[] of
length 1).
This has been a common misconception lately... :(
Never really said that was the case. The restriction was caused
for the need to be able to change the length of the array. Which
you can't do: (cast(int*)malloc(int.sizeof))[0 .. 1].length = 0.
If that wasn't std.range then it was something else, it's been a
while since I used it.
