Phobos for Review: std.buffer.scopebuffer

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/09/2014 01:12 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 04:14:05 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>> It depends on what syntax you expect. I solved it this way:
>>
>> void fun(alias length)(void* sneaky = alloca(length));
>>
>> void foo()
>> {
>>     size_t myLength = 42;
>>     fun!myLength();
>> }
>
> It defeats the point of alloca if the chunk size has to be known at
> compile-time. ...

Why would it need to be known at compile time? 42 is just an example 
here; any other expression will do.