resizeable arrays: T[new]

[Oskar Linde]

Walter Bright skrev:
> Oskar Linde wrote:
>> Walter Bright skrev:
>>
>>> [...] the difference between static arrays and dynamic arrays is very 
>>> large. For one thing, static arrays are passed by value, and dynamic 
>>> arrays by reference.
>>
>> This sounds intriguing. Does this mean that static arrays will be 
>> passed by value in D 2.0?
> 
> Yes.

That is wonderful! Another wrinkle ironed out.

>> Will string literals become dynamic (invariant) arrays instead of 
>> static too?
> 
> They'll be invariant static arrays.

Yeah, I got that a few minutes after posting from another post.  My only 
(minor) concern here was the potential performance penalty of passing 
string literals to simple template functions, like

void foo(T)(T x) {...},

but there are plenty of ways to deal with that. For example, since they 
are invariant, I guess they could be passed by reference behind the 
scenes anyway.

/Oskar