Currently new is baroque to the extreme. Should we eliminate the
class-specific allocators in favor of a simple scheme for placement new?
All that's really needed is to construct an object of a given type at a
given address. All of the syntactic mess around it is unnecessary.
I think class-specific new and delete are not a useful feature.
Second, the whole new anonymous class thing is for Java's sake. Do you
think we need to keep all that?
I suggest the following syntaxes for a type T, an integral length, an
initializerlist a la "e1, e2, e3, ..." that could be empty, and an addr
convertible to void*:
new T[length]
new T(initializerlist)
new(addr) T[length]
new(addr) T(initializerlist)
and call it a day.
What do you think?
Andrei
