earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> * "Resources come and go; memory is forever" is the likely default in 
>> D resource management. This means that destroying e.g. an array of 
>> File objects will close the underlying files, but will not deallocate 
>> the memory allocated for them. In essence, destroying values means 
>> calling the destructor but not delete-ing them (unless of course 
>> they're on the stack). This approach has a number of disadvantages, 
>> but plenty of advantages that compensate them in most applications.
> 
> I admit I'm tired right now... You mention disadvantages, the one I 
> can't avoid thinking of is memory leak! Which means you can't write e.g. 
> a simple web server that opens and closes files, instead of creating and 
> managing a file object pool? Eventually it'll run out of memory, unless 
> I'm way too tired now...

Better said, I was too tired when I posted that. I gave too little 
detail. Files are resources, so they will "come and go", i.e. will be 
under deterministic control; there's no need to worry. Only memory will 
have a "lives forever" regime for safety reasons. It's not really 
forever as the GC collects it. In short, my proposed system is to admit 
that GC is good _only_ for memory, and that deterministic management 
must prevail for other resources. I'll get back later on this.

>> * std.matrix will define memory layouts for a variety of popular 
>> libraries and also the common means to iterate said layouts.
> 
> I assume this is for handy and practical rectangular (and cubic, etc.) 
> "arrays". Which would be most welcome.
> 
> 
> This "memory is forever" philosophy, is this discussed in depth 
> somewhere? (With the current amount of traffic here, I simply can't 
> follow every thread anymore. :-( )

I decided to curb my posting as well. Beyond a point even passable 
content becomes just white noise. Also since we don't have an off-topic 
group, off-topic discussions tend to carry on here as well and are not 
trivial to ignore. I'm happy they are civilized (congrats to all involved).


Andrei