Containers

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 4 16:15:54 PDT 2015


On 09/04/2015 06:36 PM, rsw0x wrote:
> On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 22:21:16 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> It specifies containers as reference types, but then goes on to
>> explain how that's only half true, and tries to explain explain the
>> quirks involved, and recommend using "make" to reconcile the problem.
>> This is confusing, inconsistent, and inflexible. Containers should all
>> be either real reference types(classes) or real value types(structs).
>>
>
> It's just another one of those major issues heavily ingrained in D that
> will never be fixed at the language level.

My thinking is that significant work in this(this) is poor D style. 
Eager copying for containers doesn't seem like the best way to go. -- Andrei


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