• maik klein (15/15) Feb 15 2016 I am probably the minority but I almost never use the GC in D.
• WebFreak001 (6/7) Feb 15 2016 you can mark everything as nogc with
• maik klein (5/12) Feb 15 2016 Thanks, this should probably added to
• Era Scarecrow (6/8) Feb 15 2016 Or it hasn't been tagged @nogc or based on templates they can't
• rsw0x (3/12) Feb 15 2016 templated constructs aren't tagged @nogc because it's inferred,
• jmh530 (5/7) Feb 15 2016 It's actually in there, it's just easy to miss.
• John Colvin (3/19) Feb 16 2016 You probably can, remember that templates have their attributes

maik klein <maikklein googlemail.com> writes:

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?

WebFreak001 <janju007 web.de> writes:

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() {}

maik klein <maikklein googlemail.com> writes:

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

Era Scarecrow <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> writes:

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.

rsw0x <anonymous anonymous.com> writes:

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

jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:

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: "

John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

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.