[Issue 5347] Add constructors for primitive types to make pointers easier to use

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5347


Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> 2010-12-13 02:29:32 PST ---
Not useful very often? How about every time that you create a pointer to an int
(or any other primitive type) and want to immediately initialize the value
that's pointed to? It seems like it would be _highly_ useful whenever dealing
with pointers to primitives. If it's not useful very often, it's because
pointers aren't used very often.

And a syntax such as new int(7) or new bool(true) would be completely
consistent with all of the other types. In fact, adding it would make the
language _more_ consistent, not less. This would be particularly true when
writing generic code.

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