Bill Baxter Wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Rainer Deyke <rain...@eldwood.com> wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> I hereby suggest we get rid of new for class object creation. What do > >> you guys think? > > > > *applause* > > > > 'X(x)' and 'new X(x)' have distinct meanings in C++. In Java/C#/D, the > > 'new' is just line noise. > > Well, I think "new Foo" is how you create a struct on the heap in D. > So it's not exactly line noise. > I don't mind getting rid of new, but there better be a good way to > allocate structs on the heap. And it better not require me to do an > import just to be able to call the allocation function. > > I like the Foo.new syntax myself. > > --bb
Actually, new can also be used for creating classes on the stack... scope T t = new T();