The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!

[retard]

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:42:26 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:25:11 -0500, S <S at s.com> wrote:
> 
>> Excuse me, because I haven't been active in the D community the last
>> year due to school concerns.  However, I have been  fiddling with the
>> language and on this newsgroups since 2001.
>>
>> As I understand it, dynamic arrays are going away  soon in D2.0 in
>> favor of an ArrayBuilder class.
>>
>> I don't like it at all.  I want to stomp my feet and throw a temper
>> tantrum.   As far as I am concerned, T[] has always been an
>> array-builder.   Now, I'd appreciate some considering, and that you'll
>> excuse my poor phrasing when it comes to terminology (I am not a
>> trained computer scientist).
> 
> It's not going away.  The plan as I understand it(*) is to fix dynamic
> array stomping problems, and make thread-local dynamic arrays append
> efficiently without using the GC lock where possible.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> (*) I am not Walter Bright/Andrei Alexandrescu and so I do not have any
> final word on what makes it into D2 or not, these are just speculations
>  from communications I've been involved in.

Most likely Walter won't even tell what kind of arrays D2 will have. 
Anything can happen. The final word is the undocumented executable you 
can download when the book hits stores. Even then dmd's behavior isn't 
the final word, it might as well be a bug.