On Friday, 19 May 2017 at 19:46:07 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
I like this proposal... But it looks like people are concerned
about 'new' becoming contextual keyword (that in some contexts
it allocates with GC and in others it does something else)
It *already* does that. `new` can be overloaded and modified with
`scope`.
http://dlang.org/spec/expression.html
"NewExpressions are used to allocate memory on the garbage
collected heap (default) or using a class or struct specific
allocator. "
"If a NewExpression is used as an initializer for a function
local variable with scope storage class, and the ArgumentList to
new is empty, then the instance is allocated on the stack rather
than the heap or using the class specific allocator. "
I also believe the compiler *should* be free to optimize it to a
different allocation scheme if it proves it safely can.
