On Monday, 23 May 2022 at 12:20:11 UTC, JG wrote:
On Monday, 23 May 2022 at 11:39:22 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 23 May 2022 at 09:38:07 UTC, JG wrote:
Hi,
Is there any more standard way to achieve something to the
effect of:
```d
import std.experimental.allocator;
string* name = theAllocator.make!string;
```
Why do you want that?
Easiest way I know of is to just wrap it in a struct, then
`new that_struct`, which is also a better way for all the use
cases I know.... but those use cases are pretty rare so
there's probably a better way to do what you're trying to do.
I am writing an interpreter and I needed access to a string via
a pointer of type void*
I ended up wrapping it in a struct since I needed another value
anyway. Seems odd that one can't do it in a less unusual way.
Thanks.
You can take the address of the string. .ptr should do it, BUT I
think it might not always work, someone can correct me on this,
but I believe it depends on where the memory for the string lives
whether it works or not?