No runtime attribute?

Mike via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 10 04:30:39 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 10:46:58 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> The #[no_std] attribute is used to avoid the runtime in Rust.
>
> Do we have any use for a @noruntime attribute in D?
>
> All @noruntime functions are also @nogc (so you don't need to 
> put both attributes).
>
>
> This could give a compilation error:
>
> void foo(int[] a) @noruntime {
>     int[5] b = a[];
> }
>

Yes, it would be nice to separate *language* from *library*, but 
I've proposed such ideas in the past and they've only met 
resistance.

Mike



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