On Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 15:30:16 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:53:13 +0200
schrieb "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com>:
On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 20:47:19 UTC, Michael wrote:
> Also 3 types of pointers scares me.
This actually doesn't scare me because it is kinda useful for
certain situations. However, I don't think it needs to be
built into the language because library types can do the same
kind of thing.
Yes, once you know about UniquePtr, NotNullable, RefCounted
and such, 3 pointer types isn't scary are all.
But Rust pointers don't map 100% to library types. They have
compiler support which removes the syntactical noise of
templates and makes them behave more natural. For example in D
everything becomes a struct once you add functionality around
it and creates corner cases that aren't supported.
I wonder how many D programmers actually use Phobos' library
pointer types.
We already have pointer and references, that makes 2.
