On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 19:44:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Note that this applies to all classes, not just NSString.
Ah yes, I will make sure it works for all the NSObject types.
class NSStringRef { public: this(string s) {str_ = NSString.alloc.initWithBytes(cast(immutable(ubyte)*) s.ptr,s.length, NSStringEncoding.NSUTF8StringEncoding); } ~this() { str_.release(); }Note that this is not deterministic. There's not even a guarantee that a destructor for a class will be run at all.
Oh I simply tested this by running millions of allocations and it seemed to work but I will have to use a struct then instead I guess.
NSStringRef s = new NSStringRef("Hello"); NSLog(s.str);You can add an "alias this" [1] to avoid calling "str" explicitly.
Ah that's neat!
Currently the only correct way would be to wrap the class in a struct. There as been some talk to extend the language to support for reference counted classes [2].
Ok that sounds good. However, I'm mostly interested in how to make it work with the tools that are available now :)
