Create class on stack

Johnson Jones via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 5 18:18:50 PDT 2017


On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 23:09:09 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 17:08:32 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
>> using gtk, it has a type called value. One has to use it to 
>> get the value of stuff but it is a class. Once it is used, one 
>> doesn't need it.
>>
>> Ideally I'd like to treat it as a struct since I'm using it in 
>> a delegate I would like to minimize unnecessary allocations. 
>> Is there any way to get D to allocate a class on the stack 
>> like a local struct?
>
> The easy way is through std.typecons.scoped [1].
> Here be dragons, though, because classes are reference types.
>
> [1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.scoped

Thanks, I didn't think it created on the stack but it makes sense 
to do so. The only issue is that it escaping the reference?



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