I am probably the minority but I almost never use the GC in D. Because I never use the GC I could mark 99% of my functions with @nogc.

I just seems very annoying to add @nogc to every function.

For people like me it seems that it could be a nice addition to also allow @nogc for structs like

@nocgc struct Foo{..}

or blocks

@nogc{
   void foo(){}
   void foo1(){}
}

or even modules

@nogc module Foo

What do you think?

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 02:42:06 UTC, maik klein wrote:
> I just seems very annoying to add @nogc to every function.

you can mark everything as nogc with

// gc functions here

@nogc:

// nogc functions here
void foo() {}

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 02:47:38 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 02:42:06 UTC, maik klein wrote:
>> I just seems very annoying to add @nogc to every function.
>
> you can mark everything as nogc with
>
> // gc functions here
>
> @nogc:
>
> // nogc functions here
> void foo() {}

Thanks, this should probably added to https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#nogc

I just realized that I can't even use @nogc because pretty much nothing in phobos uses @nogc

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 03:13:48 UTC, maik klein wrote:
> I just realized that I can't even use @nogc because pretty much nothing in phobos uses @nogc

 Or it hasn't been tagged @nogc or based on templates they can't be preemptively marked it. I'd think most ranges could be @nogc; And recently with some of the toString's being rewritten to use ranges instead of allocating memory would be @nogc as well.

 Many algorithms are probably be @nogc too.

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 03:41:12 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 03:13:48 UTC, maik klein wrote:
>> I just realized that I can't even use @nogc because pretty much nothing in phobos uses @nogc
>
>  Or it hasn't been tagged @nogc or based on templates they can't be preemptively marked it. I'd think most ranges could be @nogc; And recently with some of the toString's being rewritten to use ranges instead of allocating memory would be @nogc as well.
>
>  Many algorithms are probably be @nogc too.

templated constructs aren't tagged @nogc because it's inferred, tagging them @nogc would impose restrictions on the end user

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 03:13:48 UTC, maik klein wrote:
>
> Thanks, this should probably added to https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#nogc
>

It's actually in there, it's just easy to miss.

It's the box with the text after

"Attributes are a way to modify one or more declarations. The general forms are: "

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 03:13:48 UTC, maik klein wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 02:47:38 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 02:42:06 UTC, maik klein wrote:
>>> I just seems very annoying to add @nogc to every function.
>>
>> you can mark everything as nogc with
>>
>> // gc functions here
>>
>> @nogc:
>>
>> // nogc functions here
>> void foo() {}
>
> Thanks, this should probably added to https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#nogc
>
> I just realized that I can't even use @nogc because pretty much nothing in phobos uses @nogc

You probably can, remember that templates have their attributes inferred.