On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:50:17 +0100, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
Jesse Phillips:
This page[1] has been getting regular updates, so it should do a good
job answering the question.
1. http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel#FutureDirections
Most things on that page seems OK and not too much complex to
understand. There are two things in that page that I think need more
discussion, because I don't understand them or I don't see their need:
- Remove struct initializers.
Struct initializers on the C form:
struct S { int n; }
S s = { 4 };
No need for them when we have this:
S s = S( 4 );
and static opCall for those special occasions.
This cleans up the language, and makes some things somewhat easier
(e.g., what is the type of { 4, "Hi!" }?
- Make array literals immutable.
Currently, string literals are immutable, but no other array literals are:
auto s = "Foo!"; // typeof( s ) == immutable(char)[]
auto i = [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]; // typeof( i ) == int[]
Literals are allocated in the static data segment, and thus should be
immutable.
--
Simen
