On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:39:02 -0800, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 2/3/2014 7:03 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
Note that ObjC has special syntax to handle weak pointers. It's not well
understood by many.
Sounds like explicitly managed memory is hardly worse.
Well special syntax is needed to make ARC work because of the requirement
to explicitly mark a pointer as a weak-reference. It would also mean that
all existing D code would subtly break (leak memory) in any case where a
weak-reference is required and was previously handled transparently by the
GC. I won't say that manually managed memory is worse, because it does
automatically clean up most of the trash, but ARC still allows to shot
yourself in the foot easily enough.
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Adam Wilson
GitHub/IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator
