DIP 1025--Dynamic Arrays Only Shrink, Never Grow--Community Review Round 1

bachmeier no at spam.net
Mon Nov 11 14:02:36 UTC 2019


On Monday, 11 November 2019 at 13:33:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Prior art fails to mention @nogc, which already prohibits these 
> operations in D today. So does -betterC. These work without 
> breaking nearly every D module I have ever seen for marginal 
> benefit at best.

The "marginal benefit at best" depends. If the goal is to move 
away from the GC and make using D without the GC the priority, as 
seems to be the case based on this and other recent work, the 
benefit is not marginal. Some communication about the overall 
goal here would be nice. Is there even a plan?


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