Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 23 22:35:56 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> The things that have me banging my head most often are
> 1) the few things preventing an implementation of smart pointers 
> [destructors, copy constructors and opDot].  There are some cases where 
> you just want to refcount objects.  This is the one hole in D that I 
> haven't heard any reasonable workaround for.  I don't necessarily _want_ 
> copy constructors in general but they seem to be necessary for 
> implementing automatic reference counting.
> 2) lack of a way to return a reference.
> 3) From what I can tell "const ref" doesn't work for parameters in D 
> 2.0. Oh, and
> 4) real struct constructors.  Just a syntactic annoyance, but still an 
> annoyance.

These will all be addressed in 2.0.



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