On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Walton <[email protected]>wrote:
> The other suggestion that's been floated that satisfies all of these > constraints is `alloc`, and honestly, if `new` is that unpopular maybe we > should just switch to that. It's not that I'm unconcerned about `new()(1 + > 2)` being weird: it's that I'm more concerned about what's not going to > make C++ programmers run away. > > Patrick +1 for `alloc`. It is straightforward and to the point. Another important (IMO) advantage is that we would be able to use `new()` as a method name, instead of `init()`, which is very confusing, and conveys the wrong meaning. -- Ziad
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