UniquePtr in D

Kelet kelethunter at gmail.com
Sun Dec 22 05:24:00 PST 2013


On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 13:19:48 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> When working with C-libraries in D I often wish for a 
> equivalent of the C++11 unique_ptr. Unfortunately this is not 
> possible in D. Consider the following source code:
>
> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/6e71c815
>
> Is error 1 a bug? Because there should cleary not be any copy 
> at this point.
>
> Should we implement moving of u so that error 2 goes away? The 
> compiler could move u into the function and move back out 
> afterwards, but that would mean that the contents of u would be 
> invalid for the duration of the function call (unsafe?)
>
> Kind Regards
> Benjamin Thaut

Is std.typecons.Unique[1] not the equivalent of unique_ptr?

[1]: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.Unique

Regards,
Kelet


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