Shouldn't  variables be "auto" automatically?

I was surprised to read that they werent.

Phill.



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I think the basic types are auto'ed , and structs are automatically auto, but classes require the keyword.  Its kinda hard coming from C++ to get over having to 'new' something thats on the stack , but it does drive home the point that everything must be new'ed :).

C

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> I think the basic types are auto'ed , and structs are automatically auto, but classes require the keyword.  Its kinda hard coming from C++ to get over having to 'new' something thats on the stack , but it does drive home the point that everything must be new'ed :).
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I just remember that classes in D are actually pointers to objects, not objects themselves.  Therefore classes need to be autoed if you want them handled by the stack. Everything else (for this particular topic) works the same as in C++.

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"C" <dont@respond.com> wrote in message news:opr5z5iqrdehmtou@localhost... I think the basic types are auto'ed , and structs are automatically auto, but classes require the keyword.  Its kinda hard coming from C++ to get over having to 'new' something thats on the stack , but it does drive home the point that everything must be new'ed :).

Especially women!

Phill

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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 07:55:59 +1000, Phill <phill@pacific.net.au> wrote:

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In article <opr5z5iqrdehmtou@localhost>, C says...
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Auto objects are not on the stack. They are on the heap, but their destructor is called when when the pointer goes out of scope. It is there in order to implement RAII.