memory management and the standard library

[James Blachly]

On 3/14/19 5:32 PM, JN wrote:
> Also, some language features seem dubious or hardly used at all. Does 
> anyone really use contracts? I know they're sweet and Eiffel and 
> everything, but does anyone ACTUALLY use them and doesn't stick to good 
> old asserts? Perhaps rather than implementing (and supporting! each 
> feature has to work well with other features which adds support 
> overhead) such features, it'd be more useful to add features like struct 
> initialization outside of assginments, which feels to me like a much 
> nicer improvement to the language.

FWIW as a new-ish D programmer I used contracts to great effect to 
quickly write an interval tree library (which I will release soon). The 
contracts mechanism sped development tremendously, as well as caught 
several subtle edge-case errors that would have been nightmare to find 
without.

That being said, I would love struct initialization ...