Containers

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 05-Sep-2015 05:36, bitwise wrote:
> On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 23:15:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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
>
> I feel should add that I still very much favor simple value type
> containers.
>
> C++ does just fine with value-type containers. I know "D isn't C++" but
> if it works, it works.

I agree if only on the grounds of composability. Value-typed containers 
are "more" then ref-based ones. As we can always get:

Unqiue!ValueTypedContainer or RC!ValueTypedContainer

on top of value type container.

> I think the D community often tries way too hard
> to be innovative, and in many cases, less is more. WYSIWYG is a much
> more important principal to me than whatever resulted in a RefCounted(T)
> that likes to dress up like a value type. Structs doing heavy work in
> this(this) may be bad D style, but structs that don't act like structs
> is worse.
>


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky