Eliminate class allocators and deallocators?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Oct 7 13:22:36 PDT 2009


Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  7 de octubre a las 14:18 me escribiste:
>> Manfred_Nowak wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>> if I saw a highlighted keyword that I had no idea what it does I'd
>>>> get quite worried
>>> Why wouldn't you try to look at the documentation of the
>>> language---as you do with the documentation of a library?
>>>
>>> -manfred
>>>
>> I didn't say I wouldn't. I just said I'd be much more worried.
>>
>> My point is, languages are never modular. To be even marginally
>> effective in a language, you must have some understanding of it all.
>> That definitely isn't the case for libraries.
> 
> Languages are modular when they let you define new syntax, but that's
> another topic ;)

A topic at which no language succeeded.

Andrei



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