Manual memory management in D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/13/2010 04:42 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:33:20 +0300, bearophile
> <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>
>> Vladimir Panteleev:
>>> ARGHARGHARGH
>>
>> There is emplace() now. I don't know how much good it currently is.
>
> I know that I can do this manually in other ways, the problem is that
> this creates verbose and unintuitive code.

I agree. I think we should, again, define two primitives:

T* malloc(T, A...)(A args) if (!is(T == class) && !isDynamicArray!T);
T malloc(T, A...)(A args) if (is(T == class) || isDynamicArray!T);
free(T)(ref T obj);

The first two call C's malloc, constructor (if any), and returns the 
allocated object. The last calls the destructor (if any) and then free().

worksforyou?

Andrei