Proposal: .isizeof property for compile-time instance size

S. Chancellor dnewsgr at mephit.kicks-ass.org
Tue Apr 11 00:29:46 PDT 2006


On 2006-04-10 11:39:48 -0700, Frank Benoit <benoit__ at __tionex.de> said:

>> I'd rather see my proposal implemented, and then classes be in terms of
>> true references and then ad a "psizeof" to get the size of the physical
>> pointer or stack variable.  Of course, I would be bias toward my
>> proposal. :)
> 
> If you have a template for type T and want to know the size for storing
> it T.sizeof should return 4 for a reference type.
> So it seems to me, a new name like ".isizeof" is better.

Having an "ideal" reference would solve a lot more problems than just 
this though.




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