DMD 0.177 release

[Chris Miller]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:53:07 -0500, Alexander Panek  
<a.panek at brainsware.org> wrote:

> Those are newCharz and newChars, of course.
>
> Apart from that, this might be interesting, too:
>
> // alias thingie array;
>
> template Ptr (T) {
> 	// Create a simple thingie
> 	T *newPtrs ( size_t size ) {
> 		return (new T[size]).ptr;
> 	}
>
> 	// Create null-terminated thingie
> 	T *newPtrz ( size_t size ) {
> 		T *p = (new T[size + 1]).ptr
> 		p[$ - 1] = '\0';
>
> 		return p;
> 	}
> }
>
> alias Ptr!(char).newPtrs newChars;
> alias Ptr!(char).newPtrz newCharz;
>
> Not tested, but this might be useful for someone.
>

Not bad, perhaps needs better names though. newChars still sounds like new  
char[] (array). Maybe allocptr/ptrAlloc/ptralloc/palloc to have a similar  
name as malloc since they have similarities (working with pointers).   
*shrug*