On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 01:18:50 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 23:09:09 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 17:08:32 UTC, Johnson Jones
wrote:
using gtk, it has a type called value. One has to use it to
get the value of stuff but it is a class. Once it is used,
one doesn't need it.
Ideally I'd like to treat it as a struct since I'm using it
in a delegate I would like to minimize unnecessary
allocations. Is there any way to get D to allocate a class on
the stack like a local struct?
The easy way is through std.typecons.scoped [1].
Here be dragons, though, because classes are reference types.
[1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.scoped
Thanks, I didn't think it created on the stack but it makes
sense to do so.
See the source [1] as to why: typeof(scoped!T) is a
(non-copyable) struct that holds the memory for the T object
inside it.
The only issue is that it escaping the reference?
Yes, don't escape references, that's the reason for my comment:
Here be dragons, though, because classes are reference types.
[1]
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.075.0/std/typecons.d#L6613
