On Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 01:31:25 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 00:52:20 UTC, FujiBar wrote:
I have read that in D structs are always allocated on the
stack while classes are always allocated on the heap.
That's not true; it is a really common misconception.
Putting a struct on the heap is trivial and built into the
language: `S* s = new S();`
Putting a class on the stack is a bit trickier, but the
standard library provides a helper to do it:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#scoped follow the
examples given there.
True, but wasn't there a conscientious decision to make structs
more amenable to value semantics while classes are more conducive
to reference semantics.
I guess the question would be why would one want a struct on the
heap and a class on the stack? Performance reasons?
