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[Denis Koroskin]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:22:10 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>> My T[] is useful when you want to recursively split a megabyte file  
>> into a couple thousands of tokens, and then modify some of those  
>> tokens.  For that, your T[] must be lightweight, it must reference a  
>> bigger piece of data, and it must guarantee not to write anything into  
>> memory outside its boundaries.
>>  The Array is for appending.  It must always own its memory.  Therefore  
>> you should be able to pass it around by reference, so Array is a  
>> *class* and cannot be nearly as lightweight as T[].
>>  You see, many of their properties are orthogonal.  If you drop one,  
>> you lose flexibility.
>>
>>> Besides, Array!(T) is not a good name for build-in type.
>>  Names are placeholders here, not an actual proposal.
>
> What's wrong with making Array a library type?
>
> Andrei

Then, you'll have to drop new T[] syntax in favor of new Array!(T);