T[new] misgivings

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:09:46 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:49:12 -0400, Walter Bright  
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Don wrote:
>>>> There are two sensible options:
>>>
>>> I see the question as, is T[new] a value type or a reference type? I  
>>> see it as a reference type, and so assignment should act like a  
>>> reference assignment, not a value assignment.
>>  Andrei says you think arrays are like slices with some extra  
>> functionality, but slices are *not* a reference type, they are  
>> hybrids.  Do you think T[new] arrays should be fully reference types?  
>> (I do)
>
> I might have misrepresented his position. We both think T[new] is a  
> reference type, and it was implemented that way in the now defunct  
> feature.


Yeah, I haven't looked at the newsgroup since Thursday, and I had 500 new  
messages to read.  Sorry for responding to this dead thread :)

-Steve