OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

[Bruno Medeiros]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Boris Kolar wrote:
>>> I don't understand why a good RIAA is not already a part of D. C++ 
>>> has it, so
>>> it obviously can be done. The new 'scoped' keyword is insufficient 
>>> for me,
>>> because I'd like to make all my classes scoped. I can usually develop
>>> 99% of my C++ code without a single 'new' or 'malloc'. Most of my 
>>> classes
>>> are small (average ~2 fields and ~4 methods) and only used locally, 
>>> so I'm
>>> really angry when I think about negative performance impact they will 
>>> have
>>> in D simply because a decent RIAA is missing.
>>
>> Have you considered using structs instead of classes? They are 
>> allocated on the stack.
> 
> Can you do RAII with them?
> I thought that a struct cannot have a destructor, but reading the spec 
> again I notice there's an entry for StructAllocator and 
> StructDeallocator, but no indication of how to use it.

They are the same as class allocators and deallocators (which are not 
*ctors):
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/class.html#allocators

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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