Bill Baxter:
> Sorry I didn't read your post in detail, but if think C-like behavior is easier, then why don't you just use std.c.stdlib.{malloc,calloc,alloca,realloc,free} ?

You may want to read my post :-)
If you create a data structure you may want to mix GC-managed things with data structures allocated manually. This leads to things I don't understand yet (until someone explains me, or I just read the whole code of the Phobos GC).

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> Bill Baxter:
>> Sorry I didn't read your post in detail, but if think C-like behavior is easier, then why don't you just use std.c.stdlib.{malloc,calloc,alloca,realloc,free} ?
> 
> You may want to read my post :-)
> If you create a data structure you may want to mix GC-managed things with data structures allocated manually. This leads to things I don't understand yet (until someone explains me, or I just read the whole code of the Phobos GC).

Ok, I just latched on to your phrase "Programming in C is much simpler".    If C doesn't even support the kind of thing you want to do, then you can't really say it's simpler.  Simplistic maybe.  After all, anything you can do in C you can pretty much do with very similar code in D.

--bb