Jarrett Billingsley Wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sam S E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is allocated in the gc heap? Just classes? Dynamic/associative arrays? > > Structs? Only things allocated with new? Do built-in types and structs get > > deallocated at the end of scope like in C? > > > > Everything that is a reference type (classes, dynamic arrays, AAs) is > allocated on the heap. > > Everything that is a value type (basic types, fixed-size arrays, > structs) are allocated on the stack and are deallocated when the scope > is left. > > scope references to classes will delete the class they refer to when > the scope is left. As a special case, a declaration of the form > "scope x = new ClassType()" will actually allocate the class instance > on the stack instead of on the heap.
Thank you; thanks to you I now have a basic understanding of all the features of D. Now if only Walter could implement all of them :) --Sam
