pointers, assignments, Garbage Collection Oh My?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-07-11 09:43, Maxim Fomin wrote:

> It's in the user side. In druntime it is void[] + typeinfo. I am not
> aware of any part in dmd/druntime where arrays are repsented as
> templates (or strongly typed) as depicted in this dicsussion. And
> current treatment can be barely called templatization as there is no
> templates, template instantiations and typicall horrible mangling at
> all. More precise description is not templatization but some kind of
> implicit conversion from array of specific type in source code to void
> array plus typeinfo in runtime library. If user tries to use struct
> Array(T) {...} instead of usual arrays he will gain no benefit but
> useless template bloat.

Yes, but that is easier to type. All the above or:

struct Array (T)
{
     size_t length;
     T* ptr;
}

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/Jacob Carlborg