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[Bill Baxter]

bearophile wrote:
> Bill Baxter:
>> Sorry I didn't read your post in detail, but if think C-like behavior is 
>> easier, then why don't you just use 
>> std.c.stdlib.{malloc,calloc,alloca,realloc,free} ?
> 
> You may want to read my post :-)
> If you create a data structure you may want to mix GC-managed things with data structures allocated manually. This leads to things I don't understand yet (until someone explains me, or I just read the whole code of the Phobos GC).

Ok, I just latched on to your phrase "Programming in C is much simpler". 
    If C doesn't even support the kind of thing you want to do, then you 
can't really say it's simpler.  Simplistic maybe.  After all, anything 
you can do in C you can pretty much do with very similar code in D.

--bb