On 2/6/13 5:26 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 07:38:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Probably it'll need a fair amount of tweaking. Anyhow it's in
destroyable form.
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25
Thanks,
Andrei
I'm not sure why it's trying to safe-up pointers.
Disallowing the & operator on stack variables is going to cause code
breakage of unprecedented proportions (probably biggest since strings
where made immutable), I know I use it a LOT in my projects,
particularly when interfacing with C libraries or making slices to stack
memory. Also, shoving the burden of performance onto the GC for the
common case seems like a particularly bad choice considering the current
state of the art. Pointers are relatively rare in D; when users take the
address of a local variable, it's for a good reason.
I think it stands to reason that we should pull back a little bit and
only tighten that particular screw in @safe code.
Andrei
