On 11/4/12 12:35 PM, Tommi wrote:
I have a fundamental language design talking point for you. It's not specific to D. I claim that, most of the time, a programmer cannot, and shouldn't have to, make the decision of whether to allocate on stack or heap.
I don't think that claim is valid. As a simple example, polymorphism requires indirection (due to variations in size of the dynamic type compared to the static type) and indirection is strongly correlated with dynamic allocation. Also, the value vs. reference semantics of type are strongly correlated with where objects should go. So on the contrary, quite often heap vs. stack allocation is forced by the nature of what's allocated.
Andrei
