On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 15:46:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/15/14, 6:02 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 15:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/13/14, 6:43 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On actual topic of next step - I agree with Jacob, removing
all
internal allocations from Phobos is most beneficial
short-term
goal.
That's a given. This task and improving RC don't compete
(except, of
course, for bearing on the same people). I ask again, who
wants to
champion std.refcounted? Rainer? Manu? Michel? Are you there?
-- Andrei
You should start with at least some sort of design document
for what
such module should look like.
The design is part of the championing. But haven't heard a peep
- it seems everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to
die :o).
Right now it is not clear to me at all
what kind of improvements are desired within current language
limits.
The clarify it to yourself and others. Start with a library
approach to making reference counting easy and convenient. Then
see how it informs possible language improvements.
Well I have already pointed out my concerns in this thread. Until
some solution is found new refcount module doesn't seem worth
putting the effort into.