Re: ObjC additions (Was: Re: PROPOSAL: Objective-C++)

[Helge Hess]

Ziemowit Laski wrote:
> I've been working with ObjC/ObjC++ for almost a year now, and the thing I
> miss the most is the ability to instantiate ObjC classes or the stack
> or in file scope, a la C++.  As I understand it, though, this may not
> be possible to accomplish since 'alloc...' is not always cleanly
> separated from 'init...' in many class implementations.  Also, some
> clever syntax for initializing such objects would have to be invented.

Well, it's not syntax for it, but in libFoundation you can allocate
objects from the stack using the StackZone:

#include <Foundation/StackZone.h>

{
  StackZone *zone;
  id stackAllocated;

  zone = [[Stack alloc] init];  
  stackAllocated = [[NSMutableString allocWithZone:zone] init]; 
}

But IMHO this makes things very complicated to track ... (what happens
if someone outside retain's the string ...)

Greetings
  Helge
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