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[Benji Smith]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> What Andrei is implying, then is that for dynamic arrays, we should
>> have to use the (already-legal) "new T[](n)" form, and "new T[x]"
>> would mean to allocate a statically-sized array on the heap.
> 
> Well yah but I think this will confuse people coming from C++. I just 
> wish new was abolished entirely:
> 
> struct S {}
> auto a = S();
> auto b = Object();
> auto c = char[](15);
> auto d = char[15]();
> 
> So in general Type followed by "(" ...optional arguments... ")" yields a 
> value.
> 
> 
> Andrei

Interesting. I could live with that.

--benji