[grawprog]

To second the use of structs, mostly this. Typically i use structs for most numeric types or anything that doesn't need a method and classes for any reference type with methods. Though, i'll stick to structs/stack allocated data as much as possible.

I try to make a clear distinction between stack and heap stuff and use one or the other where appropriate.

From lua i moved to D for a lot of my heavier projects. I like the way D separates types and uses appropriate reference and copy semantics. Being able to specifically separate heap and stack data and essentially use structs and classes as either copy or reference data just seems fairly straightforward to me.

A struct is just a bunch of stuff of different types grouped up in memory, while a class is essentially a pointer that can be moved to some places in memory and can point to data or functions, use each appropriately and where necessary.