• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Oct 20 2009

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

 I'm having a hard time justifying that you use
 
 new X(args)
 
 to create a class object, and
 
 X(args)
 
 to create a struct object. I wrote this:
 
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 The syntactic  difference between  the expression creating  a  struct 
 object---Test( \meta{args} ) ---and the  expression creating a  class 
 object---\cc{new Test(}\meta{args} ) ---may be  jarring at first. \dee
 could have dropped the  new   keyword entirely, but that  new  reminds
 the programmer that an object allocation (i.e., nontrivial work) takes
 place.
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That's struct literal, not struct object. Struct object is on the left hand
side. Struct literal calling the constructor looks more like a hack, C++ looks
more consistent in this aspect. And you can create a struct object with new
operator.