Today’s topic: Allocation! What? You thought allocation was relegated to languages like C and C++? Yeah, that’s actually pretty close to true. We’re not learning about malloc today. Rather, we’re learning about the built-in function new, which gives us just one (of many!) ways to allocate memory for a variable. Allocation The built-in function new takes a type T, allocates storage for a variable of that type at run time, and returns a value of type *T pointing to it.
