On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 02:44:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2014 6:01 PM, Mike wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 21:22:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
1. Ref Counting
I believe that ARC is a pipe dream for D, as we've discussed
extensively here.
But a ref counted object should work, and would be very
attractive, much like
C++'s shared_ptr<T>.
How does this differ from std.typecons.RefCounted?
Let me put it this way: users all complain that D doesn't have
ref counting. If typecons.RefCounted works, why is this
happening? What can be done to convince people that D does ref
counting? If it doesn't work, what needs to be done to fix it?
For me the simple "works or not" test question is "can you do
reference counted exceptions?". Right now it is impossible AFAIK.
