I've argued in the past about being able to elide the 'new' keyword entirely...

Given the suggested placement, I assume it would be illegal to reassign a 'scope' reference...

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:52:06 -0700, Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy@gmail.com...

This is placement new--the parameter to new specifies the location where the object will...

...what I meant. Different uses of 'new' (RAII/regular) could call different new()s, which...

I think "local" may be a better name. At least I don't think I...

banana++

I like scope for RAII too.  Wonder who originally suggested that *cough*cough* ;)

Support for static operator functions can be useful for refactoring code in some cases, or...

'new' doesn't imply/require that heap allocation actually be done, it just requires the...

It does. When I use it, 'var' is not an abbreviation of 'variable', it's...