On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:16:58 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 07/11/2010 11:24 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:46 +0300, bearophile
<[email protected]> wrote:
A std lib function is not set in stone, later it can be improved,
modified, etc.
But the same could be said about any language feature! Deprecating the
delete statement, and increasing the verbosity of the code for the sake
of customizability appears absurd to me. Why not move the implementation
of the delete statement to the standard library (if it's not there
already) and get it to do the same as the fancy new clear() thing?
delete shouldn't have been a keyword in the first place - it's only
justified historically (it was defined before templates existed etc).
Anyway, changing its meaning at this point is bound to confuse C++
comers.
I don't think writing clear(obj) is more taxing that writing delete obj.
I'm sorry, but what if I manage my memory manually and don't use the GC?
Or will that soon be deprecated as well?
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:[email protected]
