Stroustrup's talk on C++0x
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Fri Aug 24 01:20:28 PDT 2007
Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> The things that have me banging my head most often are
>> 1) the few things preventing an implementation of smart pointers
>> [destructors, copy constructors and opDot]. There are some cases
>> where you just want to refcount objects. This is the one hole in D
>> that I haven't heard any reasonable workaround for. I don't
>> necessarily _want_ copy constructors in general but they seem to be
>> necessary for implementing automatic reference counting.
>> 2) lack of a way to return a reference.
>> 3) From what I can tell "const ref" doesn't work for parameters in D
>> 2.0. Oh, and
>> 4) real struct constructors. Just a syntactic annoyance, but still an
>> annoyance.
>
> These will all be addressed in 2.0.
Hot diggity. Looking forward to it.
--bb
More information about the Digitalmars-d
mailing list