std.allocator needs your help

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:29:39 -0700
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 9/23/13 11:32 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 2013-09-23 19:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> I think this is debatable. For one, languages such as Java and C++
> >> still have built-in "new" but quite ubiquitously unrecommend their
> >> usage in user code. Far as I can tell that's been a successful
> >> campaign.
> >
> > Since when is it _not_ recommended to use "new" in Java?
> 
> http://goo.gl/KVmAom
> 

Uhh, that's JavaScript, not Java. From what I can tell, the
arguments seem to be very specific to JavaScript, ie, centering around
prototype-inheritance and implicit declarations.

Paulo's comment about preferring dependency injection makes sense
(Although they'd still get new'ed anyway, just at some other point,
right?). Were there other reasons?