== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > Georg Wrede wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Don wrote: > >>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >>>> new is a really bad construct. I'm very unhappy that D inherited it. > >>> > >>> Care to elaborate? > >> > >> I just did in the PS :o). New is not uniform: you can't use it easily > >> to allocate a pointer to a dynamic array, or even a fixed-size array. > >> Why? Because new is syntactically ill-conceived. It also allocates two > >> keywords for no good reason. > >> > >> new should disappear and delete should be an unsafe function. > > > > Have I missed a discussion on what to have instead of new? > Nothing. > auto a = T(args); > should create a T, whether T is a class, array, struct, what have you. > This "new" business is lame, lame, lame.
So it's back to malloc when we want to dynamically allocate a struct, or does calling the ctor this way always perform dynamic allocation?
