'new' class method
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 23 13:07:07 PDT 2008
"Bill Baxter" wrote
> To me this makes a lot of sense:
>
> auto a = SomeStruct(); // a is a struct on the stack
> auto b = SomeClass(); // b is a class on the heap
>
> It kills static opCall for classes, but who cares. I'm often tempted
> to write static opCalls for classes like this anyway:
> static SomeClass opCall() { return new SomeClass(); }
>
> Just to get the uniformity of construction syntax.
It also cleans up this ugliness:
auto data = (new FileInput(filename)).readAll();
Which then becomes:
auto data = FileInput(filename).readAll();
-Steve
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