On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 14:15:40 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 14:03:56 UTC, Michael wrote:
So this might be a bit of a stupid question, but looking at
the DMD source code (dmodule.d in particular) I see the
following code:
[...]
and I was just wondering why certain functions seem to be
called using the dot operator on its own, unattached to some
object. This is probably a naive question but I haven't seen
this in my limited experience using D and I was just wondering
why this is. I have only really seen this relating to D's
manual memory management. But in the same file, I see examples
like this:
[...]
so what is the case when you should use .free() and why not
just free()? Thanks.
Dot is equal to C++'s :: operator to access a global namespace.
Aka ::free(ptr);
I've not seen that either, though I'm not a C++ programmer. Does
using free() on its own not assume access of a global namespace?
