T[new] misgivings

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Oct 15 20:52:48 PDT 2009


Robert Jacques wrote:
> I like (and have used) the opSliceAssign syntax to represent by 
> value/copy assignment as opposed to opAssign's by reference syntax. You 
> could always define T[new] auto-resize in the case of a[] = b, but then 
> you'd have to decide if that behavior should be extended to slices.

I could. Walter doesn't wanna. He says he wants a[] = b[] to generate an 
unchecked memcpy in release mode.


Andrei



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