Phobos for Review: std.buffer.scopebuffer

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 04:14:05 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> It depends on what syntax you expect. I solved it this way:
>
> void fun(alias length)(void* sneaky = alloca(length));
>
> void foo()
> {
>     size_t myLength = 42;
>     fun!myLength();
> }

It defeats the point of alloca if the chunk size has to be known 
at compile-time. You could just use a void-initialized 
fixed-length array at that point.