Am 09.10.2011 19:52, schrieb bearophile:
(I show this here because it's probably a silly idea, but it may a chance to
learn something.)
Do you like the idea of a POD that is always managed by reference, as class
instances?
ref struct Foo {}
static assert(Foo.sizeof == 1);
void main() {
Foo f1; // void reference
Foo f2 = new Foo; // by reference
}
It is as light as a struct, but you don't need to use the pointer syntax to
manage a Foo instance, the code is cleaner. There is no info field inside a ref
struct, so in some situations the destructor doesn't get called, like regular
structs.
Bye,
bearophile
What about:
struct FooData {...}
alias FooData* Foo;
//dot syntax etc works like you want
//only problem: (new FooData) instead of (new Foo)
