Array Operations: a[] + b[] etc.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/21/12 1:20 PM, John Colvin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 18:15:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/21/2012 10:02 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>>> My vision of how things could work:
>>> c = a[] opBinary b[];
>>> should be legal. It should create a new array that is then reference
>>> assigned to c.
>>
>> This is not done because it puts excessive pressure on the garbage
>> collector. Array ops do not allocate memory by design.
>
> Fair enough. When you say excessive pressure, is that performance
> pressure or design pressure?

Performance pressure - the design here is rather easy if efficiency is 
not a concern.

Andrei